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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

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As I discussed in my re:Invent keynote earlier this month, I am now happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon RDS Cross Region Read Replicas , which is another important enhancement for our customers using or planning to use multiple AWS Regions to deploy their applications. Cross Region Read Replicas are available for MySQL 5.6

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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

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What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application? unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). They dont interact with the applications unique. solution if you really understand the specific application. location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and.

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Expanding the Cloud: Docker Containers in Elastic Beanstalk

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We launched Elastic Beanstalk in 2011 with support for Java web applications and Tomcat 6 in one region, and we''ve seen the service grow to 6 container types (Java/Tomcat, PHP, Ruby, Python,NET, and Node.js) supported in 8 AWS regions around the world. Best of Both Worlds.

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New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

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By Werner Vogels on 24 May 2011 05:26 AM. Route53 support for WRR load balancing. Weighted Round Robin is a DNS based load-balancing scheme that allows you to select multiple IP address for a name to be resolved to and to assigns frequencies ("weights") to how often the name should resolve to each address.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.

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By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2011 04:00 PM. 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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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

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Auto Scaling is particularly well suited for applications that experience hourly, daily, or weekly variability in usage. Amazon Elastic Load Balancing: A for-fee ($0.025/hour/balancer + $0.008/GB transferred) which automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances.

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Where have all the good databases gone? : spf13.com

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The responsibility to maintain changes falls on the application and isnâ??t the system dynamically load balances their data across the machines. Wed Jul 13, 2011. t a constrained by the database. Dynamic Partitioning. He Writes: Dynamic partitioning of data across large dynamic numbers of machines. pcworld.com).