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Diving Deep on S3 Consistency

All Things Distributed

I recently posted about Amazon S3 and how it’s evolved over the last 15 years since we launched the service in 2006 as “storage for the internet.” ” We built S3 because we knew customers wanted to store backups, videos, and images for applications like e-commerce web sites.

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Happy 15th Birthday Amazon S3 -- the service that started it all

All Things Distributed

Back when S3 launched on March 14, 2006 (also known as “Pi Day” to some), iPhones didn’t exist, neither did tweets or likes, Facebook was still only used by a few colleges and universities, and you couldn’t hail a ride or order lunch with an app. At the time, the universe of data storage lived in blocks and files.

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Introduction to KVM, SR-IOV, and Exploring the Advantages of SR-IOV in KVM Environments

DZone

Embedded within the Linux kernel, KVM empowers the creation of VMs with their virtualized hardware components, such as CPUs, memory, storage, and network cards, essentially mimicking a machine. Additionally, its standing development history since 2006 ensures a stable virtualization platform.

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Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage.

All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy. Comments ().

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Auto-Increment Counter Persistence in MySQL 8: Comparing the Evolution From MySQL 5.7

Percona

sec) service mysql restart mysql> select * from users; ERROR 2006 (HY000): MySQL server has gone away No connection. MySQL 8’s solution MySQL 8 addresses the auto-increment counter loss issue in the InnoDB storage engine upon server restart. mysql> select version(); + --+ | version() | + --+ | 5.7.42-46

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Impact of DDL Operations on Aurora MySQL Readers

Percona

Aurora replicas connect to the same storage volume as the primary DB instance and support only read operations. After the ALTER TABLE completes, the modified structure will be visible to the replicas because of the same underlying storage. Trying to reconnect. Lost connection to MySQL server during query So what is the issue?

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. This becomes an even more important lesson at scale: for example, as S3 processes trillions and trillions of storage transactions, anything that has even the slightest probability of error will become realistic.

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