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Amazon Makes it Free for Developers to Build and Host Most Alexa Skills Using AWS

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Many Alexa skill developers currently take advantage of the AWS Free Tier, which offers one million AWS Lambda requests and up to 750 hours of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) compute time per month at no charge. In a game with memory, you could pause for a few hours and then keep going (like the Wayne Investigation , or Sub War ).

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

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AWS has been offering a range of storage solutions: objects, block storage, databases, archiving, etc. Amazon EFS is a fully-managed service that makes it easy to set up and scale shared file storage in the AWS Cloud. With Amazon EFS, there is no minimum fee or setup costs, and customers pay only for the storage they use.

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

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To take advantage of the game-changing opportunities, businesses are looking to blend into the digital world. Fraud.net uses Amazon Machine Learning to provide more than 20 machine learning models and relies on Amazon DynamoDB and AWS Lambda to run code without provisioning or managing servers.

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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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