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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

We also made it easy for customers to leverage multiple Availability Zones to architect the various layers of their applications with a few clicks on the AWS Management Console with services such as Amazon Elastic Load Balancing , Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB.

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Teradata: Embrace the Power of PaaS

Cloud Musings

The elasticity of cloud architecture enables the company to lease additional nodes within a few days. They were also able to deploy both production and development systems to the Teradata Cloud, with the option to add disaster recovery systems in the future.

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Liveblog: Introduction to Managed Database Services on AWS

Scott Lowe

Challenges faced here led FanDuel to re-architect to the next-generation architecture. In 2011, FanDuel migrated entirely to AWS, but scaling issues due to application architecture persisted. In 2012, FanDuel moved the architecture toward SOA, introducing message queues to decouple services.

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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

Data Center Knowledge

With a well-planned deployment, and a good infrastructure, companies can efficiently load-balance their IT environment between multiple active, cloud-based, sites. So, if one site should go down – users would transparently be balanced to the next nearest or most available data center. . Remote backup and storage.

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Evolving Strategies in Platform Operations: Harnessing Automation and DevOps for Enhanced Efficiency and Reliability

KineticData

Our platform is built on a sophisticated microservices architecture that consists of several distinct microservices which handle various features and functionality to deliver mission-critical solutions to our end users. This automation not only ensures consistency but also enables quicker scaling and modification of our processes.

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Liveblog: Scaling to Your First 10 Million Users

Scott Lowe

One offering in particular that Williams calls out is Amazon Aurora, a MySQL-compatible offering that has automatic storage scaling, read replicas, continuous incremental backups to S3, and 6-way replication across availability zones. This sort of architecture gets you greater scale as well as greater redundancy and fault tolerance.