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

All Things Distributed

Amazon Elastic MapReduce takes away much of this muck by providing a hosted Hadoop framework that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and efficiently spin up resizable clusters for distributed processing of large data sets. The posting on the AWS developer blog also has some more background.

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Spot Instances are ideal for use cases like web and data crawling, financial analysis, grid computing, media transcoding, scientific research, and batch processing. To get started using Spot or for more details visit the Amazon EC2 Spot Instance web page, the AWS developer blog , and the EC2 Release Notes. CTO - Amazon.com.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Today, I am very proud to be a part of the Amazon Web Services team as we truly make HPC available as an on-demand commodity for every developer to use. There has been no easy way for developers to do this in Amazon EC2. Many organizations are using mid-range HPC systems for their enterprise and research needs. CTO - Amazon.com.

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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

All Things Distributed

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. Given that I have frequently written about many of these technologies on this blog I asked investor relations to be allowed to reprint it here.

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What matters about Matter, the new smart home standard

The Verge

The Echos with Zigbee on board — the Echo Studio, Echo Show 10, and Echo Plus — have the same radio as the Echo fourth-gen, so they are potentially upgradable to be Thread border routers, says Chris DeCenzo, principal software development engineer at Amazon Lab126. But much of that will be dependent on the technology needed by the protocol.”.

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5 Terabyte Object Support in Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Or, BioPharma researchers and scientists can stream genomic sequencer data directly into Amazon S3, which frees up local resources and allows scientists to store, aggregate, and share human genomes as single objects in Amazon S3. CTO - Amazon.com. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. Contact Info.

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

However these fixed functions for vertex and fragment operations eventually became too restrictive for the evolution of next generation graphics, so new GPU architectures were developed where user specific programs could be run in each of the stages of the pipeline. Also more details can be found on the AWS Developer blog.