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

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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.

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

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After the launch of the AWS APAC (Hong Kong) Region, there will be 19 Availability Zones in Asia Pacific for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world.

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. Just dropping your website in an S3 bucket brings all that power to you.

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New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Elastic Load Balancing now provides support for EC2 Security Groups such that customers that hosts their Internet accessible application instances behind ELB can build security rules that for example restrict traffic to only the ELB instances that front them.

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Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton - All Things Distributed

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. Comments ().

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Government and Big Data. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics. The scalability, flexibility and the elasticity of AWS makes it an ideal environment for the agencies to run their analytics.

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

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. Comments ().

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