All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Given that AWS is a pioneer in building and operating these services world-wide, these lessons have been of crucial importance to our business. AWS helps its customers do this too. APIs are forever.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 139

High Scalability

AUGUST 3, 2018

David Rosenthal : The margins on AWS, averaging 24.75% over the last twelve quarters, are what enables Amazon to run the US retail business averaging under 3% margin and the international business averaging -3.7% margin over the same period. asymco : Apple Q4 Sales Guidance $60B-$62B vs $52.58B year ago, Gross Margin 38-38.5%

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Certain parts of our architecture used to run on relational databases but we just couldn’t scale them fast enough to meet the demands of our fast growing online retail business, particularly during the holiday shopping seasons. AWS offers its customers a choice of different database services, each optimized for different workloads.

Cache 121

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 121

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

AWS is far and away the cloud leader, followed by Azure (at more than half of share) and Google Cloud. But most Azure and GCP users also use AWS; the reverse isn’t necessarily true. More than one-third have adopted site reliability engineering (SRE); slightly less have developed production AI services. .

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS DevOps 141

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Today, we are releasing a plugin that allows customers to use the Titan graph engine with Amazon DynamoDB as the backend storage layer. In supply chain management, connections between airports, warehouses, and retail aisles are critical for cost and time optimization. The importance of relationships. Graph databases at Amazon.

Database 131

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 131

All Things Distributed

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. As we say at AWS, It is still Day One for DynamoDB.

Internet 124

Internet Internet AWS Performance 124

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Four years ago, as part of our AWS fast data journey, we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed, in-memory data store that operates at microsecond latency. Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple.

Games 108

Games Retail Latency Education 108

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

However, we also knew that building a distributed database that has unlimited scale and maintains predictably high performance while providing rich and flexible query capabilities, is one of the hardest problems in database development, and will take a lot of effort and invention from our team of distributed database engineers to solve.

Games 125

Games Scalability Database Retail 125

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Around 20 years ago, we used machine learning in our recommendation engine to generate personalized recommendations for our customers. Last week, I wrote a blog about helping the machine learning scientist community select the right deep learning framework from among many we support on AWS such as MxNet, TensorFlow, Caffe, etc.

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AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 164