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

All Things Distributed

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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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Canada (Central) Region

All Things Distributed

The AWS Cloud now operates in 40 Availability Zones within 15 geographic regions around the world, with seven more Availability Zones and three more regions coming online in China, France, and the U.K. AWS data centers in Canada will draw from a regional electricity grid that is 99 percent powered by hydropower. in the coming year.

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Expanding the Cloud ? Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier

All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud â?? One factor in this growth is the presence of image, audio and video archives, which are often archived in their original un-edited form. With Amazon Glacier any organization now has access to the same data archiving capabilities as the worldâ??s All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

Since we opened the first AWS EU Region in Ireland in November 2007, we have seen an acceleration of companies adopting the AWS Cloud. Our teams are helping companies of all sizes, operating in various industries, such as finance, business, media, and many others, move to the cloud. billion users across the web.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.

All Things Distributed

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Elastic Beanstalk makes it easy for developers to deploy and manage scalable and fault-tolerant applications on the AWS cloud. This is exactly where Elastic Beanstalk will help: to make it even simpler to get started and to run applications in the AWS cloud.

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DynamoDB for Location Data: Geospatial querying on DynamoDB datasets

All Things Distributed

Over the past few years, two important trends that have been disrupting the database industry are mobile applications and big data. The explosive growth in mobile devices and mobile apps is generating a huge amount of data, which has fueled the demand for big data services and for high scale databases.

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USENIX LISA 2018: CFP Now Open

Brendan Gregg

In this year's CFP we’re looking for topics covering the latest trends and best practices in cloud computing, containerization, machine learning, big data, infrastructure, scalability, DevOps, IT management, automation, reliability, monitoring, performance tuning, security, databases, programming, datacenters, and more.

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