All Things Distributed

MARCH 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Compute Cost Down for AWS Customers. AWS today announced a substantial price drop from March 1, 2012 for many of the Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache instances types around the world. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell. To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

Many AWS services and third party solutions use AWS S3 for log storage. We hear from our customers how important it is to have a centralized, quick, and powerful access point to analyze these logs; hence we’re making it easier to ingest AWS S3 logs and leverage Dynatrace Log Management and Analytics powered by Grail.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Comments ().

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Cloud Development AWS Servers 115

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Total Cost of Ownership.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential. Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy Are you looking to leverage the best private and public cloud worlds to propel your business forward? A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 23, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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.

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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 saw Erik Fisher last time I was in Budapest, and Constantin Gonzalez later became one of the first AWS solutions architects in Germany, too many names to mention.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. Comments ().

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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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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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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But take a look at the latest iterations of, for example, AWS Graviton2, which delivered a 40% price/performance boost, and Graviton3, which had an additional 27% price/performance improvement over Graviton2. No observability, no gains All these factors have made ARM an attractive computing architecture for innovative companies.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. High availability storage options within the context of cloud computing involve highly adaptable storage solutions specifically designed for storing vast amounts of data while providing easy access to it. This also aids scalability down the line.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In a time when modern microservices are easier to deploy, GCF, like its counterparts AWS Lambda and Microsoft Azure Functions , gives development teams an agility boost for delivering value to their customers quickly with low overhead costs. Scalability is a major feature of GCF. What is Google Cloud Functions?

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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

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. for a while already.

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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

OCTOBER 7, 2015

In AWS’ quest to enable the best data storage options for engineers, we have built several innovative database solutions like Amazon RDS, Amazon RDS for Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift. QuickSight is a fast, cloud native, scalable, business intelligence service for the 1/10th the cost of old-guard BI solutions.

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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 several players like Cloudflare innovating to become alternative lower-cost cloud providers. For example, AWS created Nitro. So why bother innovating? They are different in kind.

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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

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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All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). By Werner Vogels on 18 May 2010 04:00 PM. Comments (). Durability in Amazon S3.

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High Scalability

MARCH 15, 2019

300% : AWS IoT growth per year; 74% : mobile games user spending in the App store; 31.4 were using Google Cloud Storage, but given too many issues big and small over the year, we’ll be migrating to AWS S3 for storage going forward. I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. Know anyone who needs cloud?

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. What used to be only available in physical formats now often has digital equivalents and this digitalization is driving great new innovations. All Things Distributed. Music to my Ears - Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The storage systems weve pioneered demonstrate extreme scalability while maintaining tight control over performance, availability, and cost. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Today, we are releasing a plugin that allows customers to use the Titan graph engine with Amazon DynamoDB as the backend storage layer. It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. The importance of relationships.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon Redshift uses a variety of innovations to enable customers to rapidly analyze datasets ranging in size from several hundred gigabytes to a petabyte and more. Until now, these levels of performance and scalability were prohibitively expensive.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

Our customers have told us that scaling and operating these data storage systems is very challenging. Let''s dive into the innovations of Amazon ECS that addresses these problems and removes much of the complexity and "muck" of running a high performance, highly scalable Docker-aware cluster management system.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The best part is that we are also significantly expanding the free tier many of you already enjoy by increasing the storage to 25 GB and throughput to 200 million requests per month. Let’s now look at the history behind the service and the context for new innovations that make me think that. NoSQL and Scale.

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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. Also more details can be found on the AWS Developer blog. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Other benefits: It has other benefits like a Quicker launch to the market, Easier distribution, saving device power and storage, seamless maintenance, and updating. Voice optimization for apps and websites and voice-activated self-standing devices are the latest innovations in web development. Famous PWA Use Examples. Image Source.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Recommendations.

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