All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Today AWS announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. The concept of regions gives AWS customers control over the placement of their resources and services. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

Adding video to your website immediately adds value, but also a new level of complexity to your web development. The great thing today is that you can use the same technologies used by Netflix or Hulu to deliver your videos. It almost sounds like magic, but let’s look at the technology and how it works. Doug Sillars.

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Media Speed Network Analytics 106

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Today Amazon Web Services is expanding its world-wide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region located in Tokyo, Japan. The advanced Asia Pacific network infrastructure also makes the AWS Tokyo Region a viable low-latency option for customers from South Korea.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. Any work we can do to improve over these dimensions generates long term benefits for AWS customers. Our solution architects work with customers to look for opportunities to exploit elasticity in AWS setups which can lead to significant savings in operational cost. Comments ().

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AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 19, 2011

Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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AWS Database Storage Scalability 75

The Symphonia

MARCH 14, 2018

AWS announced a new service?—?the The general goal of SAR is to make it easier to distribute, and consume, applications that have been developed using AWS Serverless products, like Lambda. SAM itself is built on top of AWS CloudFormation ?—?Amazon’s the Serverless Application Repository (SAR)?—?at at re:Invent 2017.

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Serverless AWS Lambda Open Source 40

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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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Just dropping your website in an S3 bucket brings all that power to you. And it is not just purely static websites. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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Servers Social Media AWS Website 126

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

Elastic Load Balancing now provides support for EC2 Security Groups such that customers that hosts their Internet accessible application instances behind ELB can build security rules that for example restrict traffic to only the ELB instances that front them. Introducing a new Internet protocol is not a simple feat. Contact Info.

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Internet Internet AWS Scalability 114

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. Route 53 has the business properties that you have come to expect from an AWS service: fully self-service and programmable, with transparent pay-as-you-go pricing and no minimum usage commitments.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. Today Amazon Web Services has taken another important step in serving customers worldwide: the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region is now launched. Quite often "The Cloud" is portrayed as something magically transparent that lives somewhere in the internet.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern California). We have expanded the AWS footprint in the US and starting today a new AWS Region is available for use: US-West (Northern California). AWS is committed to making its services available at low cost. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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AWS Cloud Latency Storage 60

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Given the widespread use of caching in many of the applications in the AWS Cloud, a caching service had been high on the request list of our customers. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Cloud Cache AWS Storage 117

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

For an internet road warrior they are a complete nightmare. For a while this was great but as this doesnt include web and application internet traffic I started to see a rise in my roaming costs which T-Mobile charges at $15/MB. Theyre not even an AWS customer :-). Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Wireless AWS Internet Internet 107

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Many of our Big-Data customers already saw a big drop in their AWS bill last month when the cost of incoming bandwidth was dropped to $0.00. The posting on the AWS developer blog also has some more background. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Contact Info.

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Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 111

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers.

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AWS Storage Big Data Servers 78

All Things Distributed

JULY 3, 2011

Next to customer visits I will take part in a number of events organized by AWS and by our partners. This week in Japan there are three public events planned: July 4 - AWS HPC Night at Fuji Soft Hall in Akihabara. Next weekend I will travel to Australia where we will have two " Navigating the Cloud with AWS" Events.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

With existing customers I get a change to dive deep on their AWS usage and understand what works well and where we can do better. AWS Solutions Architect Matt Tavis will present on " Architecting for the Cloud ". AWS Startup Event in Tel Aviv on October 12 with customers Porticor , SemantiNet , Live Definition. . | Comments ().

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AWS Storage Cloud Best Practices 75

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers.

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AWS Storage Big Data Scalability 60

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

To get started using Spot or for more details visit the Amazon EC2 Spot Instance web page, the AWS developer blog , and the EC2 Release Notes. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 85

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. All postings.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I did write for those occasions where I thought additional background on AWS service and feature launches was relevant, but beyond that not much materialized. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. All postings. Recent Entries.

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AWS Storage Big Data Scalability 69

All Things Distributed

APRIL 23, 2010

Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers.

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AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 60

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers.

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AWS Cloud Benchmarking Storage 67

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

For more details on the new boot features visit the Amazon EC2 detail page and the posting on the AWS developer blog. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Contact Info. Other places.

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AWS Storage Operating System Cloud 60

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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AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. 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. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

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.

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Cloud AWS Storage Innovation 63

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. But first, a confession: When I first heard about the environmental impact of websites, I didn’t quite believe it.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 135

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. All of this can be done from the AWS console as well as with the AWS SDKs. More details about the website feature of Amazon S3 can be found here and in Jeff Barrs blog post on the AWS developer blog. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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AWS Website Storage Servers 134

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.

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Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

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.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Quick Summary:- Upgrading your website as per the current trend in the web development industry is crucial to get an edge over your competitors in the digital world. Let’s dive deep into the top website development trends to expect in 2022. Internet of Things (IoT). Internet of Things (IoT). Voice Search Technology.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Progressive Web Apps Being responsive is no longer enough; today’s websites need to be progressive. Progressive web apps are websites that resemble native mobile apps. Companies that have switched from traditional websites to progressive web apps have seen higher conversions and customer engagement.

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Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Simplifying IT - Create Your Application with AWS CloudFormation. With the launch of AWS CloudFormation today another important step has been taken in making it easier for customers to deploy applications to the cloud. Creating and managing these environments was a pain that AWS CloudFormation set out to relieve. Comments ().

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AWS Cloud Scalability Storage 121

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

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. A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them?

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108