Highly Scalable

MARCH 1, 2012

NoSQL databases are often compared by various non-functional criteria, such as scalability, performance, and consistency. At the same time, NoSQL data modeling is not so well studied and lacks the systematic theory found in relational databases. Document databases advance the BigTable model offering two significant improvements.

Database 279

Database Ecommerce Efficiency Engineering 279

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. DNS is an absolutely critical piece of the internet infrastructure. The Domain Name System is a wonderful practical piece of technology; it is a fundamental building block of our modern internet.

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

These companies can now benefit from the fact that the new Sao Paulo Region is similar to all other AWS Regions, which enables software developed for other Regions to be quickly deployed in South America as well. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Expanding the Cloud â??

AWS 114

AWS Latency Storage Big Data 114

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

AWS 115

AWS Cloud Java Scalability 115

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Earlier this year I met with an ISV partner who transformed his on-premise ERP software into a software-as-a-service offering. When a new customer is onboarded, the ISV has to spin up a collection of AWS resources to run their web-servers, app-servers and databases in a multi-AZ (availability zone) setting to achieve high-availability.

AWS 121

AWS Cloud Scalability Storage 121

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

To our shareowners: Random forests, naïve Bayesian estimators, RESTful services, gossip protocols, eventual consistency, data sharding, anti-entropy, Byzantine quorum, erasure coding, vector clocks. Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon.

Technology 151

Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was launched in 2006 as "Storage for the Internet" with the promise to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Some of the biggest innovations inside Amazon S3 have been how to use software techniques to mask many of the issues that would easily have paralyzed every other storage system.

Storage 71

Storage Cloud AWS Scalability 71

All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

Customers can now store their data and run their applications from our Singapore location in the same way they do from our other U.S. Quite often "The Cloud" is portrayed as something magically transparent that lives somewhere in the internet. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

AWS 61

AWS Cloud Latency Storage 61

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

A wide variety of operating systems and software configurations is available for use. This allows for a very fine-grain control of software and data configuration. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services.

AWS 60

AWS Storage Operating System Cloud 60

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Amazon SimpleDB has launched today with a new set of features giving the customer more control over which consistency and concurrency models to use in their database operations. These new features will make it easier to transition those applications to SimpleDB that are designed with traditional database tools in mind. Consistent Read.

AWS 69

AWS Latency Database Scalability 69

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Modern CPUs strongly favor lower latency of operations with clock cycles in the nanoseconds and we have built general purpose software architectures that can exploit these low latencies very well. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136