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MAY 8, 2012

AWS re: Invent. By Werner Vogels on 09 May 2012 02:00 PM. Hundreds of thousands of businesses in over 190 countries are relying on AWS to support some or all of their business and IT needs. AWS re: Invent is our inaugural global customer and partner conference that will be held November 27-29 at The Venetian in Las Vegas.

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JULY 16, 2012

Register for AWS re: Invent. By Werner Vogels on 16 July 2012 09:00 AM. The first annual AWS user and partner conference will be held November 27-29 at The Venetian in Las Vega. General registration opens up on July 25, 2012, however active AWS customers will get a chance to jump the line and start registering on July 20.

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APRIL 18, 2012

Do You Want to Help Build the Next AWS Service? By Werner Vogels on 19 April 2012 02:00 AM. finding good engineers to help AWS build the next generation of cloud computing services. A quick look at the AWS career web sites reveals that we are hiring hundreds of people around the world. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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MAY 8, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. Using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio , you can now deploy your.NET applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk directly from your Visual Studio environment without changing any code. Comments (). The software that powers todayâ??s s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse.

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MARCH 22, 2019

BrentToderian : What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018? They'll learn a lot and love you even more.5 5 billion : weekly visits to Apple App store; $500m : new US exascale computer; $1.7 3B this year, $4B next year. Debt skyrocketing.

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APRIL 11, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 12 April 2012 12:00 AM. And like most AWS services, Amazon CloudSearch scales automatically as your data and traffic grow, making it an easy choice for applications small to large. Developers set up a Search Domain -- a set of resources in AWS that will serve as the home for one collection of data.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 22 February 2012 12:01 AM. Today AWS launched an exciting new service for developers: the Amazon Simple Workflow Service. As part of the AWS SDK, the AWS Flow Framework helps developers create Amazon SWF based application quickly and easily. As always The AWS developer blog has additional details.

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JULY 19, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 19 July 2012 12:00 AM. AWS customers are bringing their most demanding workloads onto the cloud. For more details on the new instance type see the EC2 detail page and the AWS developer blog. (As High Performance I/O Instances for Amazon EC2. Comments (). blog comments powered by Disqus.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 12 November 2012 05:00 AM. Today, Amazon Web Services has greater worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sydney, Australia. I have visited Australia at least twice every year for the past four years and I have seen first-hand evidence of the tremendous interest there is in the AWS service.

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AUGUST 17, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2012 07:00 PM. I am in São Paolo, Brazil for the 2012 AWS Latin America Summit and for The Next Web Latin America conference. I will also be visiting Chile and Mexico on this trip and have the great fortune to meet many of our Latin American AWS customers. Comments ().

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AUGUST 20, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. Using Amazon Glacier AWS customers no longer need to worry about how to plan and manage their archiving infrastructure, unlimited archival storage is available to them with a familiar pay-as-you-go model, and with storage priced as low as 1 cent per GB it is extremely cost-effective.

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JUNE 21, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. Amazon DynamoDB is the fastest growing new service in the history of AWS. In the five months since it launched in January, DynamoDB , our fast and scalable NoSQL database service, has been setting AWS growth records. ve already passed our 2012 targets. Comments ().

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! Based in Bahrain, this will be the first Region for AWS in the Middle East. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally. 2017 continues a busy year for AWS in the Middle East.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

AWS has built a reputation over the years for the breadth and depth of our services and the pace of our innovation with 280 features released in 2013. These are the people working behind the scenes helping customers fully leverage all of AWS’s capabilities when running their infrastructure on AWS.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 12 September 2012 01:00 AM. Reserved Instances are an important pricing option for AWS customers to drive cost down. Customers buying on the marketplace often have a need for Reserved Instances, but at a period different from the 1 & 3 year terms that AWS offers. button in the AWS Management Console.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell. To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals.

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

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. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design. Manageable – The service would need to be easy to manage and operate.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run on AWS. These design principles led us to client-side load-balancing, and the 2012 Christmas Eve outage solidified this decision even further.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 28 November 2012 09:00 AM. To learn more about Amazon Redshift, visit the AWS blog and sign up for an invitation to the limited preview at [link]. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Announcing Amazon Redshift, a Petabyte-scale Data Warehouse Service.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 25 September 2012 06:00 PM. Following the huge success of being able to provision a consistent, user-requested I/O rate for DynamoDB and Elastic Block Store (EBS), the AWS Database Services team has now released Provisioned IOPS, a new high performance storage option for the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).

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MARCH 20, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 20 March 2012 09:00 PM. s AWS Elastic Beanstalk announcement of PHP and Git support reminded me of the post where I mentioned that we want to let a thousand platforms bloom on AWS. Some might ask why AWS would want a thousand platforms. One of the most important AWS principles is flexibility.

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APRIL 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). I often get to meet, discuss, and learn from innovators how they are using AWS to deliver transformative applications to their users, customers and partners. Comments (). Jack: Thank you.

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JANUARY 18, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. 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. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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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.

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AUGUST 16, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud. The AWS Economics Center now features the TCO of Web Applications whitepaper.

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AUGUST 24, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 24 August 2012 04:00 PM. The AWS team launched this week Amazon Glacier , a cold storage archive service at the very low price point of $0.01 Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The 5 Minute Rule. Comments (). per GB/month.

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MAY 15, 2014

In 2012, the European Commission set up the European Cloud Partnership (ECP), an initiative that brings together technology leaders, cloud users, both private and public sector, and policy-makers to recommend how to establish a Digital Single Market with no walls for cloud computing in Europe.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo. Since launch, DynamoDB has been the core infrastructure powering various AWS and Amazon services and has provided more than 5 9s of availability worldwide. With today''s announcement, DynamoDB developers can now use the AWS SDKs to inject a JSON map into DynamoDB.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 21 September 2012 06:00 PM. I was in Los Angeles this week for the Digital Media on AWS Summit and to visit many of the studios and production houses that are using AWS for production and post-production work. All the hard work is being done by them on AWS. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Leases.

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APRIL 7, 2017

I will be returning this weekend to the US from a very successful AWS Summit in Sydney, so I have ample time to read during travels. Bandettini, Neuroimage 62, 575–588 (2012). Twenty years of functional MRI: The science and the stories , Peter A. Progress and challenges in probing the human brain ", Russell A. Poldrack and Martha J.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 30 November 2012 11:00 AM. The amazing AWS re: Invent conference completed last night and I am on my way to Europe for a last visit to customers this year. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Sparse Partitions. Comments ().

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 28 September 2012 06:00 PM. I am in India for the AWS Summits in Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore (next week). Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Counting Bloom Filters. Comments ().

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

As you may remember from our announcement at re: Invent in November 2012, Amazon Redshift is a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that delivers fast query performance at less than one tenth the cost of most traditional data warehouse systems. Amazon Redshift and Designing for Resilience. Comments ().

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JUNE 21, 2017

You can add DAX to your existing DynamoDB applications with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console – no application rewrites required. DynamoDB has come a long way in the 5 years since we announced its availability in January 2012. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage. We are major users of DynamoDB.

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OCTOBER 12, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 12 October 2012 06:00 PM. I am heading to Europe this weekend for, among other things, Structure Europe and the AWS Summit in Tel Aviv. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Automatic Reconfiguration in Autonet. Comments (). I wrote this post last week but didnt get around to publishing it.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. For example, AWS customers use SQS for asynchronous communication pipelines, buffer queues for databases, asynchronous work queues, and moving latency out of highly responsive requests paths. Similarly, AWS customers have been using SQS in interesting ways. All Things Distributed.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 10 September 2012 05:00 PM. It has been an extremely humbling ride to see how customers are trusting AWS to be on their side, to really help them be successful. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. A Million Miles Away. Comments ().

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