All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

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. AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

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. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

Adding video to your website immediately adds value, but also a new level of complexity to your web development. This is a valid response — the more you dig into video and video delivery, more and more complexities arise that your developers will have to deal with. Better Video Streaming With imgix. Doug Sillars.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. Any work we can do to improve over these dimensions generates long term benefits for AWS customers. Our solution architects work with customers to look for opportunities to exploit elasticity in AWS setups which can lead to significant savings in operational cost. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. Comments ().

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The Symphonia

MARCH 14, 2018

AWS announced a new service?—?the The general goal of SAR is to make it easier to distribute, and consume, applications that have been developed using AWS Serverless products, like Lambda. SAM itself is built on top of AWS CloudFormation ?—?Amazon’s the Serverless Application Repository (SAR)?—?at at re:Invent 2017.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 19, 2011

Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

With extensive computational resources at their disposal alongside massive pools of information, developers can utilize these powerful tools to train ML models efficiently or run AI algorithms effectively by accessing stored datasets from anywhere through the internet connection provided by most reputable providers’ hosting services.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Just dropping your website in an S3 bucket brings all that power to you. And it is not just purely static websites. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

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. Quite often "The Cloud" is portrayed as something magically transparent that lives somewhere in the internet.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django websites involve a lot of files. As if that wasn’t enough already, sometimes users come along and want to upload their own files to your website. It’s enough to make any developer incredulous. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00. 2020-06-25T15:34:35+00:00. Files everywhere! Static Files. Media Files.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

Elastic Load Balancing now provides support for EC2 Security Groups such that customers that hosts their Internet accessible application instances behind ELB can build security rules that for example restrict traffic to only the ELB instances that front them. Introducing a new Internet protocol is not a simple feat. Contact Info.

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Internet Internet AWS Scalability 111

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. Route 53 has the business properties that you have come to expect from an AWS service: fully self-service and programmable, with transparent pay-as-you-go pricing and no minimum usage commitments.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Given the widespread use of caching in many of the applications in the AWS Cloud, a caching service had been high on the request list of our customers. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Cloud Cache AWS Storage 116

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Many of our Big-Data customers already saw a big drop in their AWS bill last month when the cost of incoming bandwidth was dropped to $0.00. More details can be found in the Spot Instances Section of the Amazon Elastic MapReduce Developer Guide. The posting on the AWS developer blog also has some more background.

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The Polyglot Developer

AUGUST 31, 2015

The internet can be an awful place sometimes. Let’s say you created a website or blog with WordPress that recently became popular and are now getting a ton of traffic. The post Blacklist Malicious Bots And Crawlers From WordPress appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

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. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Today, I am very proud to be a part of the Amazon Web Services team as we truly make HPC available as an on-demand commodity for every developer to use. There has been no easy way for developers to do this in Amazon EC2. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 116

All Things Distributed

APRIL 23, 2010

The ecosystem of new application and platform services in the cloud is the future of application development. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 140

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. But first, a confession: When I first heard about the environmental impact of websites, I didn’t quite believe it.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 136

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

For more details on the new boot features visit the Amazon EC2 detail page and the posting on the AWS developer blog. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Contact Info.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! 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.

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AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Spot Instances are an innovation that is made possible by the unparalleled economies of scale created by the tremendous growth of the AWS Infrastructure Services. Price History : Amazon EC2 provides a history of the Spot Price for each instance type in each Region via the AWS Management Console and the APIs. Economies of scale.

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Cloud AWS Storage Innovation 63

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. All of this can be done from the AWS console as well as with the AWS SDKs. More details about the website feature of Amazon S3 can be found here and in Jeff Barrs blog post on the AWS developer blog. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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AWS Website Storage Servers 134

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Establish a performance culture. Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor. Image source ).

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the project until the final release of the website — what would that look like? So every time a conversation about further development happens, performance is a part of that conversation as well.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? So every time a conversation about further development happens, performance is a part of that conversation as well.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

Details on the AWS Blog. AWS has been offering a range of storage solutions: objects, block storage, databases, archiving, etc. When we designed Amazon EFS we decided to build along the AWS principles: Elastic, scalable, highly available, consistent performance, secure, and cost-effective. Details on the AWS Blog.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Simplifying IT - Create Your Application with AWS CloudFormation. With the launch of AWS CloudFormation today another important step has been taken in making it easier for customers to deploy applications to the cloud. Creating and managing these environments was a pain that AWS CloudFormation set out to relieve. Comments ().

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AWS Cloud Scalability Storage 118

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? Training models and developing complex applications on top of those models is becoming easier. How will AI adopters react when the cost of renting infrastructure from AWS, Microsoft, or Google rises?

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 111

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

The answer for me is simple: Developers want their applications to be well architected and scale effectively. The days of the one-size-fits-all monolithic database are behind us, and developers are now building highly distributed applications using a multitude of purpose-built databases. The opposite is true.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. To meet these demanding and unusual requirements, weve developed several alternative, purpose-built persistence solutions, including our own key-value store and single table store. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was launched in 2006 as "Storage for the Internet" with the promise to make web-scale computing easier for developers. The goal for operational excellence in Amazon S3 (and for all other AWS services) is that it should be "indistinguishable from perfect". Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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Storage Cloud AWS Scalability 70

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

However these fixed functions for vertex and fragment operations eventually became too restrictive for the evolution of next generation graphics, so new GPU architectures were developed where user specific programs could be run in each of the stages of the pipeline. Also more details can be found on the AWS Developer blog.

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AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For more information on Multipart Upload and managing large objects in Amazon S3 , see Jeff Barrs blog posts on Amazon S3 Multipart Upload and Large Object Support as well as the Amazon S3 Developer Guide. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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