All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

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. Although there are some good examples that come with Cactus is still early days and there is not much of a community using it. Subscribe to this weblogs.

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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. A simple example is the situation with Persons and Telephones; a person has a name, a person can have one or more telephones and each phone can have one or more telephone numbers. Amazon Route 53.

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Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

The one thing that I have always struggled with during my travels are the data plans of the cell phone companies. For an internet road warrior they are a complete nightmare. One wireless company for example has an international plan that will charge you $25 per month for 50MB after which they will charge you $20 per MB.

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Wireless AWS Internet Internet 107

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

For example a number of our European customers are subject to data residency requirements when it comes to PII data and they use the EU Region to meet to those requirements. Government and Big Data. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics.

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AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

For example, when our retail customers contributed to create larger economies of scale for Amazon.com, we used the savings to lower pricing such that our customers could also benefit. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 1, 2012

And this was where a new evolution of data models began: Key-Value storage is a very simplistic, but very powerful model. For example, a user account can be modeled as a set of entries with composite keys like UserID_name, UserID_email, UserID_messages and so on. Messages can be grouped into buckets, for example, daily buckets.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 23, 2010

As examples of such services I always use Twillio (voice &sms) and Simplegeo (location), but it is time to start building out my knowledge of all the different services that are in the ecosystem. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Subscribe to this weblogs. or rss feed.

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Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. Analysis of such large data sets often requires powerful distributed data stores like Hadoop and heavy data processing with techniques like MapReduce.

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Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

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. Jurisdictions - Some customers face regulatory requirements regarding where data is stored.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

This new Region consists of multiple Availability Zones and provides low-latency access to the AWS services from for example the Bay Area. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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AWS Cloud Latency Storage 60

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

But customers have also asked us for more flexibility and control in the way that Amazon EC2 instances are booted such that they have finer grained control over for example what software configurations and data sets are available to the instance at boot time. with new security patches installed), or add new user data.

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AWS Storage Operating System Cloud 60

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Further computationally intensive, highly parallel workloads have found their way to Amazon EC2 as businesses have explored using HPC types of algorithms for other application categories, for example to to process very large unstructured data sets for Business Intelligence applications. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Consistently we have lowered compute, storage and bandwidth prices based on such cost savings. Ideally these applications will periodically save their state into, for example, EBS or Amazon S3 and upon restart read the last saved state and continue their work. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. or rss feed.

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Cloud AWS Storage Innovation 63

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Take Peterborough City Council as an example. The council has deployed IoT Weather Stations in Schools across the City and is using the sensor information collated in a Data Lake to gain insights on whether the weather or pollution plays a part in learning outcomes. Fraud.net is a good example of this.

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AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy. Comments ().

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Storage Cloud AWS Scalability 71

All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

Our smart phones and tablets are obvious examples, but many other devices are quickly gaining these capabilities; TV Sets and Hifi systems are internet enabled, and soon our treadmills and automobiles will be equally plugged into the digital world. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Subscribe to this weblogs.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

For example, to construct a product detail page for a customer visiting Amazon.com, our software calls on between 200 and 300 services to present a highly personalized experience for that customer. The storage systems weve pioneered demonstrate extreme scalability while maintaining tight control over performance, availability, and cost.

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Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Since a few days ago this weblog serves 100% of its content directly out of the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) without the need for a web server to be involved. This enables Amazon S3 to know what document to serve if one isnt explicitly requested: for example [link]. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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AWS Website Storage Servers 134

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

A simple scenario is for example the ability to clearly identify production from staging and development environments. If you want to see an example of how a simple application such as the Wordpress blogging platform can configured and created using AWS CloudFormation see the detailed posting by Jeff Barr at the AWS developer blog.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

This is especially true for customers managing HD video or data-intensive instruments such as genomic sequencers. For example, a 2-hour movie on Blu-ray can be 50 gigabytes. By supporting such large object sizes, Amazon S3 better enables a variety of interesting big data use cases. Subscribe to this weblogs. or rss feed.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

For example, the most fundamental abstraction trade-off has always been latency versus throughput. GPUs work best on problem sets that are ideally solved using massive fine-grained parallelism, using for example at least 5,000 - 10,000 threads. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Subscribe to this weblogs. or rss feed.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

If you need to achieve high-availability and scalable performance, you will need to resort to data replication techniques. For example updates to data now needs to happen in several locations, so what do you do if one or more of those locations is (temporarily) not accessible? Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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AWS Latency Database Scalability 69