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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

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Yesterday, AWS evangelist Jeff Barr wrote that AWS will be opening a region in South Korea in early 2016 that will be our 5th region in Asia Pacific. The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union (EU), and we're shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017).

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Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS - All Things.

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Customers from various verticals (media, social gaming, mobile, news, advertisement) such as Netflix, Shazam and Scopely have used SQS in variety of use-cases requiring loose coupling and high performance. Similarly, AWS customers have been using SQS in interesting ways. s problem, and we use SQS heavily in our architecture.รข??.

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Taking DynamoDB beyond Key-Value: Now with Faster, More Flexible, More Powerful Query Capabilities

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DynamoDB continues to be embraced for workloads in Gaming, Ad-tech, Mobile, Web Apps, and other segments where scale and performance are critical. Consider a table named GameScores that keeps track of users and scores for a mobile gaming application. Now you can run queries on any item attributes (columns) in your DynamoDB table.

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