All Things Distributed

JUNE 7, 2017

Unlocking the value of data is a primary goal that AWS helps our customers to pursue. At AWS we refer to these broad reasons as "laws" because we expect them to hold even as technology improves: Law of Physics. AWS Greengrass provides the following features: Local execution ofAWS Lambda functions written in Python 2.7

AWS 109

AWS IoT Lambda Storage 109

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure. People Analytics Can we support AB experiments related to recruiting and help improve candidate experience as well as attract solid talent? How can we develop templated detection modules (rules- and ML-based) and data streams to increases speed of development?

Infrastructure 183

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 183

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Key Takeaways Cloud security monitoring is a comprehensive approach involving both manual and automated processes to oversee servers, applications, platforms, and websites, using tools that are customized to fit unique cloud architectures. This includes servers, applications, software platforms, and websites.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud.

Big Data 108

Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 108

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Today, Amazon Web Services is expanding its worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sao Paulo, Brazil. RAMA , a Brazilian financial services firm and AWS customer : â??The

AWS 113

AWS Latency Storage Cloud 113

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Today AWS announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. The concept of regions gives AWS customers control over the placement of their resources and services. All Things Distributed.

AWS 107

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 107

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. 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.

Servers 123

Servers Social Media AWS Website 123

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 6, 2021

With the ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service , an Azure-hosted cloud service, ScaleOut Software introduced breakthrough capabilities for streaming analytics using the real-time digital twin concept. The management console installs as a set of Docker containers on the management server.

IoT 52

IoT Azure Analytics Healthcare 52

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. The AWS Import/Export team has announced today that they have expanded their functionality significantly by adding Import into Amazon EBS. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

AWS 90

AWS Cloud Storage Internet 90

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Our cluster size ranges from 12–18 instances of AWS EC2 m4.4xlarge instances, typically running at ~30% capacity. *? External Payload Storage External payload storage was implemented to prevent the usage of Conductor as a data persistence system and to reduce the pressure on its backend datastore. As such, Conductor 2.x

Lambda 190

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 190

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Additionally customers are not restricted to AWS services; they can mix-and-match services from other providers to best meet their needs. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2011 04:00 PM.

AWS 112

AWS Cloud Java Operating System 112

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Today Amazon Web Services is expanding its world-wide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region located in Tokyo, Japan. For more details on AWS in Japan see [link].

AWS 108

AWS Cloud Games Latency 108

Scalegrid

JANUARY 3, 2020

ScaleGrid provides full admin access to your MySQL deployments – this makes it easier to integrate the existing MySQL ecosystem of tools with your ScaleGrid MySQL deployments on AWS or Azure. The MySQL Exporter tool can be installed locally on a MySQL server or centrally on the Prometheus server.

Monitoring 164

Monitoring Metrics Servers Database 164

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your app runs in a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the provider secures the infrastructure, while you’re responsible for security measures within applications and configurations. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications?

Cloud 172

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 172

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. Any work we can do to improve over these dimensions generates long term benefits for AWS customers. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

AWS 99

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 99

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. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. The ideal candidate will be someone who has built and ran large scale distributed systems and/or databases.

AWS 72

AWS Database Storage Scalability 72

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Solution We built a system called Lerner that consists of a set of microservices and a python library that allows scalable agent training and inference for test case scheduling. We needed a way to run agents and tie the runs to the internal infrastructure for analytics, reporting, and visualizations.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. 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. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

AWS 88

AWS Internet Internet Storage 88

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. Driving this growth is the increasing adoption of hyperscale cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) and containerized microservices running on Kubernetes.

Analytics 204

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 204

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Systems that make extensive use of caching almost all report a significant reduction in the cost of their database tier.

Cloud 116

Cloud Cache AWS Storage 116

All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. Today Amazon Web Services has taken another important step in serving customers worldwide: the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region is now launched. Comments (). and European Regions.

AWS 61

AWS Cloud Latency Storage 61

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern California). We have expanded the AWS footprint in the US and starting today a new AWS Region is available for use: US-West (Northern California). Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

AWS 60

AWS Cloud Latency Storage 60

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. Naming is one of the fundamental concepts in Distributed Systems. Authoritative servers hold the definitive mappings.

Cloud 116

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 116

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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.

Innovation 138

Innovation AWS Education Network 138

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. In a follow up to the last blog post I have removed the last two dependencies this blog had on running a server somewhere: comments are now served by Disqus and search is now handled by Bing. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

AWS 74

AWS Storage Big Data Servers 74

Dynatrace

APRIL 1, 2021

Versatile, feature-rich cloud computing environments such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP have been a game-changer. Keeping track of performance, response time, and efficiency can be cumbersome, especially when teams use a multicloud strategy that spans cloud environments and on-premises systems. The benefit is scalability.

Azure 169

Azure AWS DevOps Cloud 169

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Expanding the AWS Cloud—An AWS Region is coming to South Africa! Today, I am excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in South Africa! AWS is committed to South Africa's transformation. This news marks the 23rd AWS Region that we have announced globally. We have a long history in South Africa.

AWS 167

AWS Cloud Education Programming 167

Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2024

Automate disk resizing operations with Davis AI predictive analytics The Dynatrace Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team was looking for a way to automatically adjust disk space for cloud volumes on a regular basis to avoid over- or under-provisioning them. Figure 3: Funnel analysis implemented by selecting a custom user journey.

AWS 215

AWS Analytics Cloud Monitoring 215

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Not just for HPC but for mission critical enterprise systems such as OLTP. Dedicated High Performance Compute clusters require significant capital investments and their procurement often has longer lead times than many enterprise class server systems.

Cloud 114

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 114

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Theyre not even an AWS customer :-). 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. Comments ().

Wireless 102

Wireless AWS Internet Internet 102

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Many AWS customers use Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) to front their Internet facing applications. More information can found on the Elastic Load Balancing and the Route 53 detail pages and on the two blog posts on the AWS developer blog. Comments ().

Internet 110

Internet Internet AWS Scalability 110

All Things Distributed

JULY 3, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

AWS 65

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 65

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

This allows publishers to establish a “premium” auction instead of the typical real-time bidding system. The simple answer is to just spin up more servers. More servers means more capacity. And while it’s easy to say “spin up more AWS servers”, you’re only adding to your cloud provider bill.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

This allows publishers to establish a “premium” auction instead of the typical real-time bidding system. The simple answer is to just spin up more servers. More servers means more capacity. And while it’s easy to say “spin up more AWS servers”, you’re only adding to your cloud provider bill.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services.

AWS 60

AWS Storage Big Data Scalability 60

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Comments ().

AWS 80

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 80

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I did write for those occasions where I thought additional background on AWS service and feature launches was relevant, but beyond that not much materialized. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

AWS 67

AWS Storage Big Data Scalability 67