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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

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Today Amazon Web Services is expanding its world-wide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region located in Tokyo, Japan. With the launch of the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, companies can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure web services directly connected to Japanese networks. Comments (). APAC Summer Tour.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

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Today, Amazon Web Services took very an important step in unlocking the advantages of cloud computing for a very important application area. In those days, my main goal was to take the advances in building the highly dedicated High Performance Cluster environments and turn them into commodity technologies for the enterprise to use.

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Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton - All Things Distributed

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The TNW team is doing a great job in getting an excellent program together that draws an audience from around the world, not just Europe, and there is an interesting mix of startups, enterprises, investors and media attending. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. Spot Instances - Increased Control.

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

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Many US federal agencies are already migrating existing IT infrastructure onto the cloud using Amazon Web Services. To make use of the services in this region, customers will use the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to organize their AWS resources. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

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Music to my Ears - All Things Distributed

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To build Amazon Cloud Drive the team made use of a number of cloud computing services offered by Amazon Web Services. The scalability, reliability and durability requirements for Cloud Drive are very high which is why they decided to make use of the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) as the core component of their service.

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