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In-Stream Big Data Processing

Highly Scalable

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. This system has been designed to supplement and succeed the existing Hadoop-based system that had too high latency of data processing and too high maintenance costs.

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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

All Things Distributed

This region will provide even lower latency and strong data sovereignty to local users. The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union (EU), and we're shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017). Public Sector & Not-for-Profit – UCAS , Makewaves , JustGiving.

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

All Things Distributed

Based in the Paris area, the region will provide even lower latency and will allow users who want to store their content in datacenters in France to easily do so. Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in France! The new region in France will be ready for customers to use in 2017.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

All Things Distributed

A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, and more.

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

All Things Distributed

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

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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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Expanding the Cloud ? introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

All Things Distributed

This new Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region has been highly requested by companies worldwide, and it provides low latency access to AWS services for those who target customers in Australia and New Zealand. Today, Amazon Web Services has greater worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sydney, Australia.

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