All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Expanding the AWS Cloud—An AWS Region is coming to South Africa! Today, I am excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in South Africa! AWS is committed to South Africa's transformation. This news marks the 23rd AWS Region that we have announced globally. We have a long history in South Africa.

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AWS Cloud Education Programming 167

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2022

Added AWS Lambda Functions tracing for.NET. Windows: Windows Desktop 10 2004. Windows: Windows Server 2004. In the Dynatrace menu , go to Settings > Preferences > OneAgent features. Find Java Apache HttpClient v5 and turn it on. Added support for OpenTelemetry 0.0.9. Serverless. Vendor announcement.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. As we began growing the AWS business, we realized that external customers might find our Dynamo database just as useful as we found it within Amazon.com.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB stores data on Solid State Drives (SSDs) and replicates it synchronously across multiple AWS Availability Zones in an AWS Region to provide built-in high availability and data durability. Customers can typically achieve average service-side in the single-digit milliseconds. History of NoSQL at Amazon â??

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

You could create and update blog posts, all content was straight HTML — open-source WYSIWYG editors weren’t available at the time, and Markdown didn’t come about until 2004. Twitch developer documentation hosted on AWS, edited on CloudCannon. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here. The site will load in a snap.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 31, 2023

I joined AWS about seven years ago, when it was growing fast, there was headcount and flexibility in hiring, and Amazon was famously cheap about the office space it occupied. I saw this play out while I was at Sun Microsystems as the dot com bubble burst in 2001–2004. Nowadays I’d say a hard no to anyone thinking of working there.

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AWS Energy Innovation Strategy 98

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I saw Erik Fisher last time I was in Budapest, and Constantin Gonzalez later became one of the first AWS solutions architects in Germany, too many names to mention. I also helped out in the run-up to the 2004 Athens Olympics. He hasn’t changed. So many global friendships were made that continue to today.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52