All Things Distributed

JULY 19, 2012

Expanding The Cloud â?? 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 Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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All Things Distributed

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. Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. .

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. Impressive!

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. 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

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Expanding the Cloud â?? By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. In Amazon Glacier data is stored as archives, which are uploaded to Glacier and organized in vaults, which customers can control access to using the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service. All Things Distributed. Comments (). designed for 11 ninesâ??)

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Expanding the Cloud â?? 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. Many young businesses as well as established enterprises are already using AWS, many of them targeting customers globally. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Expanding the Cloud â?? By Werner Vogels on 25 September 2012 06:00 PM. As with all AWS services, if you are in doubt about whether your application can benefit from Provisioned IOPS, it is very easy to try it out and decide for yourself, as there are no upfront costs. Provisioned IOPS for Amazon RDS. Comments ().

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The Netflix TechBlog

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. Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments.

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All Things Distributed

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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High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. skamille : I worry that the cloud is just moving us back to a world of proprietary software. 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?

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 18, 2012

Do You Want to Help Build the Next AWS Service? By Werner Vogels on 19 April 2012 02:00 AM. ve met thousands of brilliant engineers who are leveraging the cloud to deliver exciting new products and revolutionize IT as we know it. finding good engineers to help AWS build the next generation of cloud computing services.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. DynamoDB is the result of 15 years of learning in the areas of large scale non-relational databases and cloud services. One of the cloud services Amazon developers preferred for their database needs was Amazon SimpleDB. Comments (). History of NoSQL at Amazon â??

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

" Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing. 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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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS. 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. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

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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All Things Distributed

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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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Troy: We moved our service from internal servers to AWS. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. Both of these are important as they help customer accurately gauge the economic benefits of running their applications in the cloud. The AWS Economics Center now features the TCO of Web Applications whitepaper. All Things Distributed. Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility.

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All Things Distributed

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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All Things Distributed

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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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. Since then, we have been working on adding flexible querying.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There are services at Netflix that use RDBMS kind of databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL via AWS RDS. Proceedings of the Third ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing. The destination may be a datastore or an external API. Supporting Relational Databases. References [1] Das, Shirshanka, et al. “ All aboard the Databus!:

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There are services at Netflix that use RDBMS kind of databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL via AWS RDS. Proceedings of the Third ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing. The destination may be a datastore or an external API. Supporting Relational Databases. References [1] Das, Shirshanka, et al. “ All aboard the Databus!:

Database 209

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 209

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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 Ford, et al., “TCP

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. Impressive!

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Note 1: For a simple functionality such as cropping avatars, another solution would be to completely bypass the server, and implement it directly in the cloud through Lambda functions. Leonardo Losoviz. Creating The Bucket.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

In addition, they introduced a hosted version of MovableType in 2003 called TypePad to compete with other popular cloud platforms. In 2012, Dave Cole published a post on How we build CMS free websites. Twitch developer documentation hosted on AWS, edited on CloudCannon. Now you could use GitHub as your CMS. Large preview ).

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 140

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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 Ford, et al., “TCP

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 18, 2012

Expanding the Cloud â?? Introducing AWS Marketplace. By Werner Vogels on 19 April 2012 02:00 AM. Today Amazon Web Services launched AWS Marketplace , an online store that makes it easy for you to find, buy, and immediately start using software and services that run on the AWS Cloud. Cloud Experienceâ??:

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 11, 2012

Expanding the Cloud â?? 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. Search is an essential part of many of todays cloud-centric applications. All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2014

This is the promise – and the reality – of cloud computing which is driving tremendous change in the technology industry and transforming how we do business in Europe and around the world. Cloud computing unlocks innovation within organisations of all types and sizes.

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