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The Easiest Way to Compute in the Cloud – AWS Lambda

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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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Embrace event-driven computing: Amazon expands DynamoDB with streams, cross-region replication, and database triggers

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DynamoDB Streams is the enabling technology behind two other features announced today: cross-region replication maintains identical copies of DynamoDB tables across AWS regions with push-button ease, and triggers execute AWS Lambda functions on streams, allowing you to respond to changing data conditions. DynamoDB Streams.

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Expanding the Cloud: Amazon Machine Learning Service, the Amazon Elastic Filesystem and more

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Details on the AWS Blog. AWS has been offering a range of storage solutions: objects, block storage, databases, archiving, etc. When we designed Amazon EFS we decided to build along the AWS principles: Elastic, scalable, highly available, consistent performance, secure, and cost-effective. Details on the AWS Blog.

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A one size fits all database doesn't fit anyone

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In fact, this is been proven by our customers as Amazon Aurora remains the fastest growing service in AWS history. Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. The opposite is true. Building applications with purpose-built databases.

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Accelerating Data: Faster and More Scalable ElastiCache for Redis

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Three 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 sub-millisecond latency. This allows for faster failover times while minimizing latency. Building upon Redis. Redis and Fast Data. “Now