All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. Often we think about innovation as going after new unchartered territories, but it is also important to innovate in those existing dimensions that will remain important for customers. Any work we can do to improve over these dimensions generates long term benefits for AWS customers.

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AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Internet of Things (IoT). Voice Search Technology. Blockchain Technology. Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. List of Top Web Development Trends to Track in 2022.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Additionally customers are not restricted to AWS services; they can mix-and-match services from other providers to best meet their needs. There are some excellent platforms running on AWS that do precisely this; Ruby on Rails developers have Heroku. Comments ().

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AWS Cloud Java Operating System 115

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

photo taken by Adrian in Monterey County, California This year at Map Camp , I was happy to have my Amazon Sustainability team sponsor the Sustainability track, sharing the support with Liam Maxwell of AWS UK Public Sector, and to share the online stage with two awesome speakers, the famous economist Carlota Perez?—?author

Energy 52

Energy Government Innovation AWS 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

These include popular technologies such as web servers and web applications, along with advanced solutions like distributed data stores and containerized microservices. The Anatomy of Cloud Workloads Cloud workloads come in different forms, each with its own set of resource requirements. Additionally. This also aids scalability down the line.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. Using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio , you can now deploy your.NET applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk directly from your Visual Studio environment without changing any code. . | Comments (). The software that powers todayâ??s Amazon RDS for SQL Server.

Cloud 115

Cloud Development AWS Servers 115

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Developments like cloud computing, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are proving that IT has (again) become a strategic business driver. Breuninger, a fashion department store chain steeped in tradition, has recognized this and relies on a self-developed e-commerce platform in the AWS Cloud.

Artificial Intelligence 79

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Logistics AWS 79

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I really enjoyed the variety of working with several different customers every day, on different problems, and being part of an extremely innovative and fast growing company. I also learned a lot about how to work directly with customers, when to shut up and let the sales guy drive the conversation, and generally how technology sales works.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide.

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AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

All Things Distributed

APRIL 23, 2010

It will drive rapid innovation and well see a wealth of mobile, web and desktop applications arrive that we couldnt dream about a few years ago, and these building blocks are the enablers of that. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

AWS 60

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 60

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Spot Instances are an innovation that is made possible by the unparalleled economies of scale created by the tremendous growth of the AWS Infrastructure Services. Price History : Amazon EC2 provides a history of the Spot Price for each instance type in each Region via the AWS Management Console and the APIs. Economies of scale.

Cloud 63

Cloud AWS Storage Innovation 63

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. Given that I have frequently written about many of these technologies on this blog I asked investor relations to be allowed to reprint it here.

Technology 151

Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

We would still be building higher and higher on top of VMs because that's where platform innovation would have stopped evolving. We have a cloud model that offers a cloud-native method of software development, but it may take several more technological evolutions for the model to advance enough to have a minimal viable portability layer.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2019

The core technologies underpinning the major relational database management systems of today were developed in the 1980–1990s. It innovates at the storage layer to create a database built for the cloud that can support modern workloads without sacrificing performance. Relational databases have been around for a long time.

Database 147

Database Design Cloud AWS 147

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2019

The core technologies underpinning the major relational database management systems of today were developed in the 1980–1990s. It innovates at the storage layer to create a database built for the cloud that can support modern workloads without sacrificing performance. Relational databases have been around for a long time.

Database 156

Database Design Cloud AWS 156

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

While a mobile device is almost always connected to the internet and reachable, a smart TV is only online while in use. Event Priority Based Clusters AWS Instance Clusters that subscribe to the corresponding queues with the same priority. This network connection heterogeneity made choosing a single delivery model difficult.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

At Amazon we have hundreds of teams using machine learning and by making use of the Machine Learning Service we can significantly speed up the time they use to bring their technologies into production. Details on the AWS Blog. AWS has been offering a range of storage solutions: objects, block storage, databases, archiving, etc.

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Lambda Cloud IoT AWS 122

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. It took ideas from Nanoc and pushed them even further with two significant innovations: Front matter. More after jump!

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

What used to be only available in physical formats now often has digital equivalents and this digitalization is driving great new innovations. Cloud Drive also makes extensive use of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to help ensure that objects owned by a customer can only be accessed by that customer. More details at [link].

AWS 138

AWS Cloud Storage Internet 138

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Generative AI has been the biggest technology story of 2023. Executive Summary We’ve never seen a technology adopted as fast as generative AI—it’s hard to believe that ChatGPT is barely a year old. When 26% of a survey’s respondents have been working with a technology for under a year, that’s an important sign of momentum.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. This was not our technology vendorsâ?? Comments ().

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. We believe that making these GPU resources available for everyone to use at low cost will drive new innovation in the application of highly parallel programming models. Comments ().

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AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was launched in 2006 as "Storage for the Internet" with the promise to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Under the covers Amazon S3 is a marvel of distributed systems technologies. Other insights in the use of this option can be read on the AWS developer blog. Relaxing Durability.

Storage 71

Storage Cloud AWS Scalability 71

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let’s now look at the history behind the service and the context for new innovations that make me think that. Since launch, DynamoDB has been the core infrastructure powering various AWS and Amazon services and has provided more than 5 9s of availability worldwide. NoSQL and Scale. NoSQL and Flexibility: Document Model.

Availability 145

Availability Performance Scalability AWS 145

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

We also have a great deal of machine learning technology that can benefit machine scientists and developers working outside Amazon. Last week, I wrote a blog about helping the machine learning scientist community select the right deep learning framework from among many we support on AWS such as MxNet, TensorFlow, Caffe, etc.

AWS 165

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 165

All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2014

This is the promise – and the reality – of cloud computing which is driving tremendous change in the technology industry and transforming how we do business in Europe and around the world. Cloud computing unlocks innovation within organisations of all types and sizes.

Cloud 123

Cloud Innovation AWS Government 123