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Expanding the Cloud – The Second AWS GovCloud (US) Region, AWS GovCloud (US-East)

All Things Distributed

US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). The AWS GovCloud (US) environments also conform to commercial security and privacy standards such as: Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Low, Moderate, and High baselines.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling.

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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

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Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. If a server fails, the load balancer redirects traffic to a replicated server in another cluster.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

By offloading the task of managing infrastructure to AWS Essent is able to spend more time on innovating on behalf of their customers to help them in their energy usage. Ohpen – The Dutch banking regulator, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), has cleared the path for Dutch financial institutions to make use of AWS.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

AWS has come to support many different workloads; from high-volume transaction processing to video transcoding at scale, from high-performance parallel computing to massive web site traffic. No gatekeepers” liberates the innovative processes and opens the door for many unexpected inventions, which are sure to follow.

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