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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

All Things Distributed

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

All Things Distributed

In November, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in South Korea. Nexon uses AWS global infrastructure to manage its IT infrastructure more effectively, and they are now using AWS for their domestic workloads as well.

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

All Things Distributed

The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden. In 2014 and 2015 respectively, AWS opened offices in Stockholm and Espoo, Finland. That’s 100% faster.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

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Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. It will be easier to get support for infrastructure or services if several teams have the same needs. In May 2015, Vox Media wrote about the slowness of their site and commitment to make them faster.

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Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages (Part II)

The Morning Paper

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University 2015. This is part 2 of our look at Allspaw’s 2015 master thesis (here’s part 1 ). " Five infrastructure engineers and 3 product engineers were involved in the incident.

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SpaceX Spending $10 Billion to Make the Internet 20ms Faster

MachMetrics

A lot of coverage on this project is centered (rightfully) around the potential of this project to deliver fast internet to underdeveloped nations at a minimal cost. Starlink’s Goal: Reduce Internet Latency. The amount of money that companies are investing in infrastructure to reduce latency by a few milliseconds is staggering.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

All Things Distributed

In June 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in India. Market innovators and change agents need a comprehensive infrastructure platform that can reliably scale on-demand. You can learn more about our growing footprint at AWS Global Infrastructure.

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