All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Yesterday, AWS evangelist Jeff Barr wrote that AWS will be opening a region in South Korea in early 2016 that will be our 5th region in Asia Pacific. The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union (EU), and we're shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017).

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AWS Retail Entertainment IoT 167

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

For example, AWS customers use SQS for asynchronous communication pipelines, buffer queues for databases, asynchronous work queues, and moving latency out of highly responsive requests paths. Similarly, AWS customers have been using SQS in interesting ways. Today, the SQS team is launching two important features â??

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Efficiency Cloud Games Scalability 107

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. Given that AWS is a pioneer in building and operating these services world-wide, these lessons have been of crucial importance to our business. AWS helps its customers do this too. APIs are forever. Build security in from the ground up.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 147

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. Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple.

Games 113

Games Retail Latency Education 113

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Certain parts of our architecture used to run on relational databases but we just couldn’t scale them fast enough to meet the demands of our fast growing online retail business, particularly during the holiday shopping seasons. AWS offers its customers a choice of different database services, each optimized for different workloads.

Cache 131

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 131

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

As we began growing the AWS business, we realized that external customers might find our Dynamo database just as useful as we found it within Amazon.com. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design. million requests per second.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 130