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

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The new region, coupled with the existing AWS regions in Dublin and Frankfurt, will provide customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, big data analysis, Internet of Things (IoT) applications, and more.

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

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9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks.

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

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Supercell is responsible for several of the highest grossing mobile games in history, and they rely on AWS for their entire infrastructure. With titles like Boom Beach, Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, and Hay Day, Supercell has 100 million people playing their games every single day.

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A one size fits all database doesn't fit anyone

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Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. Use cases such as gaming, ad tech, and IoT lend themselves particularly well to the key-value data model where the access patterns require low-latency Gets/Puts for known key values.

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

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We couldn’t have launched this industrial IoT project without the AWS flexibility.”. Nous n’aurions jamais pu lancer ce projet industriel IoT sans la flexibilité d’AWS ». Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – Une nouvelle région AWS arrive en France !

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

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Two areas where Lambda is driving a lot of innovation is Mobile and the Internet of Things (IoT). Synchronous requests allow mobile and IoT apps to move data transformations and analysis to the cloud and make it easy for any application or web service to use Lambda to create back-end functionality. More details on the AWS Blog.

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