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Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS - All Things.

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a highly scalable, reliable and elastic queuing service that just works. Simple Queue Service (SQS) is very useful, easy to use, scalable and reliable. Amazon SQS provides highly scalable รข??eventual

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What is real user monitoring (RUM)?

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However, only highly scalable real user monitoring solutions can collect data on all user actions, while less scalable tools have to sample user actions and make inferences from partial data. Some examples include: Monitoring a retailer’s online catalog to detect any increase in page load times. Want to learn more?

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Expanding the Cloud: More memory, more caching and more performance for your data

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As we prepared to launch these features, I was struck not only by the range of services we provide to enable customers to run fully managed, scalable, high performance database workloads, including Amazon RDS , Amazon DynamoDB , Amazon Redshift and Amazon ElastiCache , but also by the pace at which these services are evolving and improving.

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Scaling Amazon ElastiCache for Redis with Online Cluster Resizing

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Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. Four years ago, as part of our AWS fast data journey, we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed, in-memory data store that operates at microsecond latency. Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retailโ€”speed wins, it's simple.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

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Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that weโ€™ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. This lowered latency more than 2x and delivered more than 10x improvement in latency variability on the network.

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Titan Graph Database Integration with DynamoDB: World-class Performance, Availability, and Scale for New Workloads

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In supply chain management, connections between airports, warehouses, and retail aisles are critical for cost and time optimization. When using relational databases, traversing relationships requires expensive table JOIN operations, causing significantly increased latency as table size and query complexity grow. Enter graph databases.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

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We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9 million requests per second.

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