August, 2011

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

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2011 11:40 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). 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.

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The Tech Bubble: A Cool Breeze in Blistering Times

The Agile Manager

Reading the headlines, tech is showing some signs of relaxing a bit. The first is a slowdown in corporate capital formation. Businesses hold record amounts of cash, but have nowhere to put it: a stagnant economy doesn't encourage investment for growth, while real interest rates on Treasurys are negative. Why raise more capital? Next are signs that captive IT spend is slowing amid general economic uncertainty in the US and Europe.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache. By Werner Vogels on 22 August 2011 07:40 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application.

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2011 06:40 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today AWS announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. This new region, which is located on the West Coast of the US, helps US government agencies and contractors move more of their workloads to the cloud by implementing a number of US government-specific regulatory

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

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. By Werner Vogels on 18 August 2011 04:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). 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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Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services - All.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. By Werner Vogels on 19 August 2011 12:40 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). There are some great job openings within Amazon Web Services. I will try to highlight some of those in coming weeks. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services.

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Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services

All Things Distributed

There are some great job openings within Amazon Web Services. I will try to highlight some of those in coming weeks. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers.

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