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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 17th, 2018

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And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. A much better way to do this would be to make a "next Logo" that would allow game players to make the AI brains needed by the robots.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

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The British Government is also helping to drive innovation and has embraced a cloud-first policy for technology adoption. The council has deployed IoT Weather Stations in Schools across the City and is using the sensor information collated in a Data Lake to gain insights on whether the weather or pollution plays a part in learning outcomes.

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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. AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partners in Hong Kong help customers migrate to the cloud.

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Expanding the Cloud: Amazon Machine Learning Service, the Amazon Elastic Filesystem and more

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Amazon ML is highly scalable and can generate billions of predictions, and serve those predictions in real-time and at high throughput. When we designed Amazon EFS we decided to build along the AWS principles: Elastic, scalable, highly available, consistent performance, secure, and cost-effective.

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A one size fits all database doesn't fit anyone

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As I have talked about before, one of the reasons why we built Amazon DynamoDB was that Amazon was pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and we were unable to sustain the availability, scalability, and performance needs that our growing Amazon.com business demanded. The opposite is true.

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

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After the launch of the AWS EU (Stockholm) Region, there will be 13 Availability Zones in Europe for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications. Supercell is responsible for several of the highest grossing mobile games in history, and they rely on AWS for their entire infrastructure.

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Embrace event-driven computing: Amazon expands DynamoDB with streams, cross-region replication, and database triggers

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A more scalable option is to decouple these systems and build a pipe that connects these engines and feeds all change records from the source database to the data warehouse (e.g., Their cloud architecture has two main components: a point-of-sales system and a merchandising system. Amazon Redshift) and Elasticsearch machines.

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