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.

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. Event Priority Based Clusters AWS Instance Clusters that subscribe to the corresponding queues with the same priority.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

An advanced observability solution can also be used to automate more processes, increasing efficiency and innovation among Ops and Apps teams. These organizational improvements open the door to further innovation and digital transformation. Making observability actionable and scalable for IT teams.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

When AWS launched, it changed how developers thought about IT services: What used to take weeks or months of purchasing and provisioning turned into minutes with Amazon EC2. Our answer is a new compute service called AWS Lambda. You can go from code to service in three clicks and then let AWS Lambda take care of the rest.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

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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.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Strategic allocation of these resources plays a crucial role in achieving scalability, cost savings, improved performance, and staying ahead of advancements in the field. This also aids scalability down the line. Just like a conductor orchestrating an ensemble of instruments to play at specific times for optimal performance.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. No, I don’t think that is because AWS is earning a 355x margin on DynamoDB!

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! This move is another milestone in our global expansion and mission to bring flexible, scalable, and secure cloud computing infrastructure to organizations around the world.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Today, Amazon Web Services has greater worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sydney, Australia. Many young businesses as well as established enterprises are already using AWS, many of them targeting customers globally. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

When using relational databases, traversing relationships requires expensive table JOIN operations, causing significantly increased latency as table size and query complexity grow. Like many AWS innovations, the desire to build a solution for a scalable graph database came from Amazon’s retail business.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Today AWS launched an exciting new service for developers: the Amazon Simple Workflow Service. Amazon SWF is an orchestration service for building scalable distributed applications. As always The AWS developer blog has additional details.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

Amazon ML is highly scalable and can generate billions of predictions, and serve those predictions in real-time and at high throughput. Details on the AWS Blog. AWS has been offering a range of storage solutions: objects, block storage, databases, archiving, etc. Details on the AWS Blog. The Amazon Elastic File System.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. Four years ago, as part of our AWS fast data journey, we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed, in-memory data store that operates at microsecond latency. At Amazon, we have always focused on innovating on behalf of the customer.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. For example, the most fundamental abstraction trade-off has always been latency versus throughput.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I spent a lot of time talking to AWS developers, many working in the gaming and mobile space, and most of them have been finding Node.js allows these developers to handle a large number of concurrent connections with low latencies. All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. Going beyond Key-Value.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Throughout the web’s history, static websites have always been a popular option due to their simplicity, scalability, and security. It took ideas from Nanoc and pushed them even further with two significant innovations: Front matter. Twitch developer documentation hosted on AWS, edited on CloudCannon. Blog aware.

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