All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Today, Amazon Web Services is expanding its worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS region in Frankfurt, Germany. The new Frankfurt region provides low millisecond latencies to major cities in continental Europe and is also run with carbon neutral power.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in France! Based in the Paris area, the region will provide even lower latency and will allow users who want to store their content in datacenters in France to easily do so. Over the past 10 years, we have seen tremendous growth at AWS.

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AWS IoT Internet Internet 166

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

No, I don’t think that is because AWS is earning a 355x margin on DynamoDB! To meet user-defined goals for performance (request latency) and cost, the monitoring service tracks and adjusts resources to workload changes. First, we deployed the storage engine across multiple storage media — currently RAM and flash disk.

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Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Clouds using Ethernet that are multipath optimized using libfabric and features like EFA on AWS are going to be increasingly competitive, and Ethernet will replace other interconnects between racks. AWS has invested in optimizing Ethernet for HPC via the Elastic Fabric Adaptor (EFA) option, and the l ibfabric library.

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Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Social media apps navigate relationships between friends, photos, videos, pages, and followers. When using relational databases, traversing relationships requires expensive table JOIN operations, causing significantly increased latency as table size and query complexity grow. Enter graph databases. Graph databases at Amazon.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

You need to watch out for complex design elements, large media files, or slow browser rendering can delay the time it takes for the largest contentful element to render. This proximity significantly reduces the time it takes for the data to travel from the server to the user, thus reducing latency and improving load times.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

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. TB of in-memory capacity in a single cluster.

Games 112

Games Retail Latency Education 112

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Customers from various verticals (media, social gaming, mobile, news, advertisement) such as Netflix, Shazam and Scopely have used SQS in variety of use-cases requiring loose coupling and high performance. Similarly, AWS customers have been using SQS in interesting ways. s Chief Architect Adrian Cockcroft blogged â??

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Efficiency Cloud Games Scalability 104

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. When instances are placed in a cluster they have access to low latency, non-blocking 10 Gbps networking when communicating the other instances in the cluster.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

Spot Instances are ideal for use cases like web and data crawling, financial analysis, grid computing, media transcoding, scientific research, and batch processing. 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. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 85

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

In an in-depth article on Streaming Media Dan Rayburn analyzed the impact of Amazon Cloudfront move to GA: Amazons CDN Gets More Competitive, Adds SLA, New Edge Locations, Lower Pricing. Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures - background article in CACM on massively parallel and throughput vs latency oriented architectures.

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AWS Cloud Benchmarking Storage 67

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Hosted repositories also have an upper limit of ~2GB, so you may need to use a 3rd party service for media if you have many assets. Twitch developer documentation hosted on AWS, edited on CloudCannon. Netlify , Vercel , CloudFlare , and AWS all have the concept of serverless functions run at edge nodes of a CDN.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. From: High Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik. Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Brotli is widely supported, and many CDNs support it ( Akamai , AWS , KeyCDN , Fastly , Cloudlare , CDN77 ) and you can enable Brotli even on CDNs that don’t support it yet (with a service worker). AV1 has compression similar to H.265

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104