Understanding Elastic Block Store Availability and Performance
Depending on your application needs, Elastic Block Store’s volumes can be configured for optimal performance and higher availability. In this session, we will present the different design characteristics of EBS Standard and Provisioned IOPS volumes, provide technical insights on how to think about EBS performance and availability, and share best practices to achieve higher availability and perfor
Active in Cloud, Amazon Reshapes Computing (Published 2012)
SEATTLE — Within a few years, Amazon.com’s creative destruction of both traditional book publishing and retailing may be footnotes to the company’s larger and more secretive goal: giving anyone on the planet access to an almost unimaginable amount of computing power. Every day, a start-up called the Climate Corporation performs over 10,000 simulations of the next two years’ weather for more than o
Summary of the AWS Service Event in the US East Region
July 2, 2012 We’d like to share more about the service disruption which occurred last Friday night, June 29th, in one of our Availability Zones in the US East-1 Region. The event was triggered during a large scale electrical storm which swept through the Northern Virginia area. We regret the problems experienced by customers affected by the disruption and, in addition to giving more detail, also w
Asgard: Web-based Cloud Management and Deployment
Asgard is deprecated at Netflix. We use Spinnaker ( www.spinnaker.io ).] Web interface for application deployments and… Some of the information in this blog post is also published in the following presentations. Note that Asgard was originally named the Netflix Application Console, or NAC. Building Cloud Tools for Netflix (Video 2011)Visual Language for the CloudTo help people identify various typ
Apache HBase on Amazon EMR – Real-time Access to Your Big Data | Amazon Web Services
AWS News Blog Apache HBase on Amazon EMR – Real-time Access to Your Big Data All Your Base AWS has already given you a lot of storage and processing options to choose from, and today we are adding a really important one. You can now use Apache HBase to store and process extremely large amounts of data (think billions of rows and millions of columns per row) on AWS. HBase offers a number of powerfu
Amazon, Eucalyptus team up for just don’t call it a hybrid cloud – Old GigaOm
On paper it looks like one of those strategic agreements that large companies sign-up with small startups. But if you look close enough, you will find that by forging a partnership with Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider, Eucalyptus Systems, Amazon.com’s (s AWS) web services division is making a masterful move to dominate the cloud market. As part of the agreem
AWS Lean Cloud
クラウド × リーンスタートアップイベントが日本へ! アマゾン リーンクラウド エボリューションセミナー開催。 2006年のサービス開始以来、アマゾン ウェブ サービス(AWS)はあらゆる規模の数十万を超える企業、組織に、コスト効率に優れ、堅牢でスケーラブルなテクノロジーをクラウドで提供してきました。 多くのスタートアップ企業がAWSのクラウドを活用して成功しており、FourSquare、playfish, Dropbox、GrouponやSpotifyのようなグローバルに成長した企業や、日本でもgumi様、クックパッド様のように多くのスタートアップ出身企業に選ばれています。. このたび、AWSでは、"Lean Cloud(リーンクラウド)" をテーマにスタートアップ企業、インキュベーター、VCといった起業に関わる方だけでなく、大手企業において新規事業を検討されている皆様に至るまで、ビジ
Amazon data center size
(Edit 3/16/2012: I am surprised that this post is picked up by a lot of media outlets. Given the strong interest, I want to emphasize what is measured and what is derived. The # of server racks in EC2 is what I am directly observing. By assuming 64 physical servers in a rack, I can derive the rough server count. But remember this is an *assumption*. Check the comments below that some think that AW
Cloud Process Flow - Amazon Simple Workflow Service - AWS
Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF) helps developers build, run, and scale background jobs that have parallel or sequential steps. You can think of Amazon SWF as a fully-managed state tracker and task coordinator in the Cloud. If your app's steps take more than 500 milliseconds to complete, you need to track the state of processing, and you need to recover or retry if a task fails, Amazon
Thoughts on SimpleDB, DynamoDB and Cassandra
I've been getting a lot of questions about DynamoDB, and these are my personal thoughts on the product, and how it fits into cloud architectures. I'm excited to see the release of DynamoDB, it's a very impressive product with great performance characteristics. It should be the first option for startups and new cloud projects on AWS. I also think it marks the turning point on solid state disks, the
Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications
Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale ApplicationsJanuary 18, 2012 • 3119 words Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB, a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. DynamoDB is the result of 15 years of learning in the areas of large scale non-relational databases a
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Amazon Q Business, now generally available, helps boost workforce productivity with generative AI At AWS re:Invent 2023, we previewed Amazon Q Business, a generative artificial intelligence (generative AI)–powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. With Amazon Q Business, yo
What to do when Amazon’s spot prices spike – Old GigaOm
Rapid price spikes are affecting buyers on the Amazon Web Services Spot Instances market (s AMZN), where users are now bidding extremely high prices for scarce compute capacity. These price spikes are new, and they call into question assumptions that many users have made about how the auctioning of computing resources works. The first report of this came in late September, when marketing software
S3のダウンロード速度を1.5〜4.5倍高速化する怪しげな方法 - 昼メシ物語
バケットのIPアドレスを適切なものに固定することで、期待値でいうと1.5倍、最大で4.5倍程度高速にダウンロードできます。 この方法は非常に効果が高いですが、非公式なものであり、ある日突然破綻する可能性もありますので自己責任でお願いします。 S3のバケットとエンドポイント まずは前提知識として、S3の名前解決について説明します。 S3のバケット "mybucket" というバケットを東京リージョンに持っているとします。するとそのバケットのドメイン名は mybucket.s3.amazonaws.comになります。これをエンドポイントと呼びます。このバケットの中にあるファイル "hello.txt" にアクセスする場合には、 http(s)://mybucket.s3.amazonaws.com/hello.txtというようなURLを用います。*1 エンドポイントのIPアドレス この myb
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