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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

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It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data. Greenplum features a cost-based query optimizer for large-scale, big data workloads.

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. The posting on the AWS developer blog also has some more background.

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Free at Last - A Fully Self-Sustained Blog Running in Amazon S3.

All Things Distributed

Free at Last - A Fully Self-Sustained Blog Running in Amazon S3. In a follow up to the last blog post I have removed the last two dependencies this blog had on running a server somewhere: comments are now served by Disqus and search is now handled by Bing. blog comments powered by Disqus. Comments (). Contact Info.

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Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS.

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AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. With this new functionality AWS Import/Export now supports importing data directly into Amazon EBS snapshots. blog comments powered by Disqus. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. blog comments powered by Disqus. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

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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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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

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. But I really want a setup that allows me to thinker with the blog where ever I am (e.g. at 30,000 feet). Jekyll also is a static website generator.

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