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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

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Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. Essent currently hosts all of their public facing websites and customer self-service portals in the AWS cloud. Shell''s scientists, especially the geophysicists and drilling engineers, frequently use cloud computing to run models.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

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We live in a world where massive volumes of data are generated from websites, connected devices and mobile apps. In such a data intensive environment, making key business decisions such as running marketing and sales campaigns, logistic planning, financial analysis and ad targeting require deriving insights from these data.

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

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After finding it cost prohibitive to use colocation centers in local markets where their users are based, iZettle decided to give up hardware. In making the switch to AWS, WOW air has saved between $30,000 and $45,000 on hardware, and software licensing. iZettle, a mobile payments startup, is also ‘all-in’ on AWS.

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

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Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. We believe that making these GPU resources available for everyone to use at low cost will drive new innovation in the application of highly parallel programming models. Comments ().

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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

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When we announced QuickSight last year, we set out to help all customers—regardless of their technical skills—make sense out of their ever-growing data. They require teams of data engineers to spend months building complex data models and synthesizing the data before they can generate their first report.

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