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Under the Hood of Amazon EC2 Container Service

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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. As you can see, the latency remains relatively jitter-free despite large fluctuations in the cluster size.

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

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The AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region is located in the eastern part of the United States, providing customers with a second isolated Region in which to run mission-critical workloads with lower latency and high availability. System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1, 2, and 3. Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0

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Poor Disk Performance

Brendan Gregg

Something like: It's called "[flying height]" or "fly height," and (from that reference) was about 5 nanometers for 2011 drives. From these outputs I try to determine if the problem is: - **The workload**: High-latency disk I/O is commonly caused by the workload applied. avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 7.90

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

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This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2011, AWS opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. AWS was crucial to the successful launch of WOW air’s U.S.

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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 14 December 2011 07:00 PM. This new Region has been highly requested by companies worldwide, and it provides low-latency access to AWS services for those who target customers in South America. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 01 March 2011 10:00 PM. Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. Comments ().

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