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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Comments ().

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This week in review: GPUs, Zombies, Biomimicry and Tom Waits.

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Science & Engineering. an engineering adventure to break the 1,000 mph barrier in a car. The Big Idea: Biomimetic Architecture - The National Geographic came in the mail this week with a beautiful pull-out of Gaudís Sagrada Família, the online version is only a summary. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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Around the World in 28 Days - All Things Distributed

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There is huge variety in exiting architectures and I am often impressed about the ingenuity of the engineers in how to best transform the application if "Lift & Shift" is not an option. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. APAC Summer Tour.

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

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Jekyll in written in Ruby and uses YAML for metadata management and uses the Liquid template engine to manipulate the content. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. Spot Instances - Increased Control.

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

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and Engine Yard , Springsource users have CloudFoundry. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. There are some excellent platforms running on AWS that do precisely this; Ruby on Rails developers have Heroku. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

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Cluster Computer Instances are similar to other Amazon EC2 instances but have been specifically engineered to provide high performance compute and networking. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. until today. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3.

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Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore.

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Currently, each AWS Region contains multiple Availability Zones, which are distinct locations that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3.

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