I read a rumor that Apple’s iCloud is (or was originally) running on AWS and Azure. It was described as being “striped” across the two systems.
We now have about 90% of our servers on AWS, and we have been happy. There have been a handful of glitches and outages, but their record is far better that we were ever able to do for ourselves. —Barry On Feb 5, 2014, at 10:16 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Kinda fascinating that Amazon Web Services has become the world's IT > department. They make slow, steady, constant, useful advances. I'm always > surprised about what I *don't* know about their services when I take a peek > back into their ecology. > > And folks like Dropbox are hip enough to just build their entire company on > top of AWS. As are others: > http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/all/ > .. one of which is Stitcher, the "radio" I use for podcasts. They even have > Italian "stations". > > I mention all this here because of its subtle integration into the cultural, > almost anthropological parts of our lives. > > We think of Google, Apple etc as the big guys in the room. AWS is pulling > ahead. I bet they have a phone soon. The Kindle Fire's are so good my son > gave both his kids one for christmas. Their first computer is a tablet, and > benefits from AWS and Android. I bet Amazon maintains the most stable, > reasonable, sensible versions of Android, btw. The phone companies haven't > done that great a job. > > -- Owen > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Amazon Web Services <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:04 AM > Subject: Top Announcements for January > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > > > > The latest news, updates, and more View in Browser > > > > > Amazon EC2 > New M3 Instance Sizes and Features > M3 instances are now available in two new sizes: m3.medium and m3.large with > 1 and 2 vCPUs, respectively. M3 instances now feature SSD-based instance > storage and support for Amazon S3-backed AMIs. These M3 instances feature > high frequency Intel Xeon E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge) processors and > are available in all AWS Regions, with AWS GovCloud (US) support coming soon. > Learn More » > > > > > > > > Amazon S3 & Amazon EBS > Price Reductions > Prices for Amazon S3 standard storage and Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) > were lowered by up to 22%. In the US Standard Region, S3 standard storage > prices are being lowered by up to 22%, with similar price reductions across > all other Regions. Amazon EBS Standard Volume prices are lowered up to 50% > for both storage and I/O requests. > Learn More » > > > Amazon Redshift > New SSD-based Node Type > Amazon Redshift now offers Dense Compute nodes, a new SSD-based node type > that enables customers to create even faster, lower-cost data warehouses with > Amazon Redshift. Customers can now start smaller with 160GB datasets for as > little as $0.10/hour, and then easily scale to a cluster with thousands of > cores, terabytes of RAM, and hundreds of terabytes of SSD storage. > Learn More » > > > > > Amazon CloudFront & Amazon Route 53 > New Features and Edge Locations > Amazon CloudFront now supports Geo Restriction, a new feature that allows > customers to restrict access to their content based on the geographic > location of end users. This is useful for scenarios such as delivering movies > and distribution of encrypted software. Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53 > launched new edge locations in Manila, Marseille, Rio de Janeiro, Taipei, and > Warsaw. > Learn More » > > > AWS Summits 2014 > San Francisco Registration is Now Open > Whether you are new to the cloud or an experienced user, you will learn > something new at an AWS Summit. These free events, held around the world, are > designed to educate new customers about the AWS platform and offer existing > customers deep technical content to be more successful with AWS. > Register Free for San Francisco » > See Dates and Locations Worldwide » > > > > > New Developer Tools > Test with DynamoDB Local in Visual Studio » > Test with DynamoDB Local in Eclipse » > > > > Customer Success Story > Read the Story » > > > > Introduction to AWS > See a Demo, Take a Lab, and Get Started with an AWS Service in Minutes » > > > > > AWS Marketplace News > New Free Software Trials » > > > > More Recent News > Read the Latest News » > > > > AWS Events and Webinars > View All and Register » > > > > > > We hope you enjoyed receiving this message. If you'd rather not receive > future emails from Amazon Web Services unsubscribe here. > > Amazon Web Services, Inc. is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon.com is a > registered trademark of Amazon.com, Inc. This message produced and > distributed by Amazon Web Services, Inc., 410 Terry Ave. North, Seattle, WA > 98109-5210. > > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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