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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. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Expanding the Cloud â??

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

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Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. 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.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

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Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks. Beyond running their web properties and applications, Next Digital also uses Amazon RDS (database), Amazon ElastiCache (caching), and Amazon Redshift (data warehousing).

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

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A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, and more.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache. There are many success stories about the effectiveness of caching in many different scenarios; next to helping applications achieving fast and predictable performance, it often protects databases from requests bursts and brownouts under overload conditions. Expanding the Cloud â??

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

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

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Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services - All.

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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. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments ().

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