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

All Things Distributed

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. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments (). At werner.ly

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Expanding the Cloud ? Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier

All Things Distributed

Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud รข??

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Canada (Central) Region

All Things Distributed

It adopted Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR and AWS Lambda to power its data warehouse, big data, and data science applications, supporting the development of product features at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions. Kik Interactive is a Canadian chat platform with hundreds of millions of users around the globe.

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5 Terabyte Object Support in Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

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This is especially true for customers managing HD video or data-intensive instruments such as genomic sequencers. By supporting such large object sizes, Amazon S3 better enables a variety of interesting big data use cases. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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USENIX LISA 2018: CFP Now Open

Brendan Gregg

LISA originally stood for "Large Installation System Administration," where "large" meant systems with more than a gigabyte of storage, or with more than 100 users. To learn more about how LISA has evolved, browse last year's LISA17 conference program , and see the slides and talk videos.

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USENIX LISA 2018: CFP Now Open

Brendan Gregg

LISA originally stood for "Large Installation System Administration," where "large" meant systems with more than a gigabyte of storage, or with more than 100 users. To learn more about how LISA has evolved, browse last year's LISA17 conference program , and see the slides and talk videos.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.

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Last week I ran into an AWS customer at CES who was enthusiastic about how his digital production workflow and video encoding is now running reliably in the cloud. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. At werner.ly

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