All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. By Werner Vogels on 13 December 2009 03:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today we launched a new option for acquiring Amazon EC2 Compute resources: Spot Instances. Using this option, customers bid any price they like on unused Amazon EC2 capacity and run those instances for as long their bid exceeds the current "Spot Price.

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The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 24, 2009

Michael Milken , the former junk bond king, has a charitable foundation. His foundation did some research a few years ago that determined that 70% of 7 chronic illnesses - things like diabetes, heart disease, lung cancer and so forth - are preventable through lifestyle change. They concluded that if people took better lifestyle decisions, doctors could focus their energies on enhancing and improving the quality and duration of life.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Powerful New Amazon EC2 Boot Features. By Werner Vogels on 02 December 2009 05:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today a powerful new feature is available for our Amazon EC2 customers: the ability to boot their instances from Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store).

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern California). By Werner Vogels on 02 December 2009 05:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). We have expanded the AWS footprint in the US and starting today a new AWS Region is available for use: US-West (Northern California).

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