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JULY 19, 2012

Even though SSDs are still more expensive from a storage point of view they are a much more cost effective solution from an iops point of view. Early users of these High I/O instances have been able to reduce their replication factors significantly while achieving rock solid performance and substantially reducing their cost in the process.

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

With the launch of the South America (Sao Paolo) Region, AWS now provides companies large and small with infrastructure that allows them to get to market faster while reducing their costs which enables them to focus on delivering value, instead of wasting time on non-differentiating tasks. blog comments powered by Disqus.

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AUGUST 18, 2011

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. The posting on the AWS developer blog also has some more background. Comments ().

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Following the huge success of being able to provision a consistent, user-requested I/O rate for DynamoDB and Elastic Block Store (EBS), the AWS Database Services team has now released Provisioned IOPS, a new high performance storage option for the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Reducing Complexity. Comments ().

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MARCH 2, 2011

These corporations are using AWS to improve organizational agility, radically transform resource allocation models, reduce time-to-market, and remove the need to pour financial and intellectual capital into their IT operations that do not meaningfully differentiate their businesses from those of other global corporations. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

Since the launch of Spot Instances in December 2009, we have heard from a large number of customers, like Scribd , University of Melbourne/University of Barcelona , Numerate , DNAnexus , and Litmus that Spot is a great way of reducing their bills with reported savings as high as 66%. blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Often we think about innovation as doing new things or based on revolutionary new technologies such as DynamoDB, but it is more important to ensure that one can also innovate based on existing paradigms. We are investing in use of CloudFormation coupled with Chef – the result will enable us to lower costs and further reduce risk.

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JULY 13, 2010

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

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AUGUST 16, 2011

There are different considerations when deciding where to allocate resources with latency and cost being the two obvious ones, but compliance sometimes plays an important role as well. The move to the cloud is projected by 2015 see a reduction of 30% in IT infrastructure costs, which amounts to $7.2 blog comments powered by Disqus.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

There were blog posts by Jeff Barr The Cluster GPU Instance and James Hamilton HPC in the Cloud with GPGPUs , as well as my background posting: Expanding the Cloud - Adding the Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances. The Cluster Compute and the Cluster GPU Instances are now supported by Amazon Elastic Map Reduce.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Cost-effectiveness - Cost-effectiveness continues to be one of the key decision making factors in managing IT infrastructure, whether physical or cloud-based. AWS has a history of continuously driving costs down and letting customers benefit from these cost reductions in the form of reduced pricing. Contact Info.

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MARCH 7, 2013

DynamoDB One Year Later: Bigger, Better, and 85% Cheaperâ?¦. t realized until recently that over a year has gone by since we launched DynamoDB. Many of our customers have, with the click of a button, created DynamoDB deployments in a matter of minutes that are able to serve trillions of database requests per year. Comments ().

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

As we prepared to launch these features, I was struck not only by the range of services we provide to enable customers to run fully managed, scalable, high performance database workloads, including Amazon RDS , Amazon DynamoDB , Amazon Redshift and Amazon ElastiCache , but also by the pace at which these services are evolving and improving.

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JANUARY 18, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB â?? Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. DynamoDB is the result of 15 years of learning in the areas of large scale non-relational databases and cloud services. Comments ().

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Today, I’m thrilled to announce several major features that significantly enhance the development experience on DynamoDB. We are introducing native support for document model like JSON into DynamoDB, the ability to add / remove global secondary indexes, adding more flexible scaling options, and increasing the item size limit to 400KB.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Also, because similar data are stored sequentially, Amazon Redshift can compress data efficiently, which further reduces the amount of IO it needs to perform to return results. Redshift has a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture, which enables it to distribute and parallelize queries across multiple low cost nodes.

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APRIL 27, 2011

Given that I have frequently written about many of these technologies on this blog I asked investor relations to be allowed to reprint it here. This approach reduces side effects and allows services to evolve at their own pace without impacting the other components of the overall system. blog comments powered by Disqus.

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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. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

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. An 8 TeraFLOPS HPC cluster of GPU-enabled nodes will now only cost you about $17 per hour. Also more details can be found on the AWS Developer blog. Syndication.

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