All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. AWS re: Invent. Jeff Bezos 2011 Letter to Shareholders. Hundreds of thousands of businesses in over 190 countries are relying on AWS to support some or all of their business and IT needs. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2011 06:40 AM. Today AWS announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Cloud Readyâ??; Government and Big Data.

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AWS Government Big Data Cloud 90

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 27, 2025

It was clearly far better hardware than we could build, had a proper full featured operating system on it, and as soon as it shipped, people figured out how to jailbreak it and program it. A year or so later, in 2011, Netflix also launched their (free) official iPhone app, and my sales plummeted!

C++ 88

C++ Mobile Hardware Java 88

All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. By Werner Vogels on 07 July 2011 01:40 PM. The AWS Import/Export team has announced today that they have expanded their functionality significantly by adding Import into Amazon EBS.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. By Werner Vogels on 29 June 2011 09:55 AM. Any work we can do to improve over these dimensions generates long term benefits for AWS customers. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 84

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 27 April 2011 12:51 AM. This approach reduces side effects and allows services to evolve at their own pace without impacting the other components of the overall system. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 22 August 2011 07:40 PM. Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. It will be available in other AWS Regions in the coming months.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. By Werner Vogels on 24 March 2011 10:31 AM. To make it easy we have free AWS usage credits available onsite for who ever needs them. There is one requirement; you have to be "hacking" using the AWS APIs.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 28 March 2011 02:50 PM. Cloud Drive also makes extensive use of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to help ensure that objects owned by a customer can only be accessed by that customer. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 19, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. By Werner Vogels on 19 August 2011 12:40 PM. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Everything as Code can be described as a methodology or practice which consists of extending the idea of how applications are treated as code and applying these concepts to all other IT components like operating systems, network configurations, and pipelines. We went from managing five EC2 instances in 2011 to around 1,000 in 2017.

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Code Infrastructure DevOps Cloud 167

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2011 11:40 AM. Amazon S3 is much more than just storage; the network and distributed systems infrastructure to ensure that content can be served fast and at high rates without customers impacting each other, is amazing.

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Servers Social Media AWS Website 111

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

To achieve concurrency control, we implemented Amazon ECS using one of Amazon’s core distributed systems primitives: a Paxos-based transactional journal based data store that keeps a record of every change made to a data entry. Hailo was founded in 2011 and has been built on AWS since Day 1.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

As I discussed in my re:Invent keynote earlier this month, I am now happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon RDS Cross Region Read Replicas , which is another important enhancement for our customers using or planning to use multiple AWS Regions to deploy their applications. Cross Region Read Replicas are available for MySQL 5.6

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Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 111

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 11 January 2011 10:20 AM. Starting on January 1, 2011, the service, which is called DROAM, is open to use for everyone. Theyre not even an AWS customer :-). Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 18 August 2011 04:00 PM. Many of our Big-Data customers already saw a big drop in their AWS bill last month when the cost of incoming bandwidth was dropped to $0.00. The posting on the AWS developer blog also has some more background.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 24 May 2011 05:26 AM. Many AWS customers use Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) to front their Internet facing applications. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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Internet Internet AWS Scalability 96

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 23 February 2011 09:43 AM. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 11 July 2011 07:22 AM. To get started using Spot or for more details visit the Amazon EC2 Spot Instance web page, the AWS developer blog , and the EC2 Release Notes. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 8, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I have just returned from the AWS Summits in New Zealand and Japan, which were both very well attended and, according to the feedback, very successful. Rodriguez-Aguilar and Mark Klein, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Volume 43 Issue 2, January 2011.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 27 February 2011 11:28 PM. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 3, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 03 July 2011 03:57 PM. Next to customer visits I will take part in a number of events organized by AWS and by our partners. This week in Japan there are three public events planned: July 4 - AWS HPC Night at Fuji Soft Hall in Akihabara.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

An average of 434 ms is awful, and a small queue size (aqu-sz) indicates it's a problem with the disk and not the workload applied. Something like: It's called "[flying height]" or "fly height," and (from that reference) was about 5 nanometers for 2011 drives. avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 7.90 Linux 4.15.0-66-generic

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

As a MongoDB user, it’s crucial to ensure that your data is safe and secure in the event of a disaster or system failure. Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks. Why are MongoDB database backups important?

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

An average of 434 ms is awful, and a small queue size (aqu-sz) indicates it's a problem with the disk and not the workload applied. Something like: It's called "[flying height]" or "fly height," and (from that reference) was about 5 nanometers for 2011 drives. avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 7.90

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

An average of 434 ms is awful, and a small queue size (aqu-sz) indicates it's a problem with the disk and not the workload applied. Something like: It's called "[flying height]" or "fly height," and (from that reference) was about 5 nanometers for 2011 drives. avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 7.90 Linux 4.15.0-66-generic

Performance 40

Performance Latency Speed Systems 40

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. By Werner Vogels on 17 February 2011 07:45 AM. All of this can be done from the AWS console as well as with the AWS SDKs. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. Although there are still a few very exciting AWS news updates to happen this year. Bar-Yam, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity.

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