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Search at Intercom: Building our Elasticsearch cloud on AWS

Intercom, Inc.

For this reason, we chose to run exclusively on AWS and wherever possible, we make use of battle-tested AWS services, be it RDS Aurora for our relational databases, the Simple Queue Service (SQS) for our async workers or ElastiCache for our caching layer. This post is a version of a talk I gave at Elastic Community Conference recently.

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How Amazon Web Services (AWS) Achieved an $11.5B Run Rate by Working Backwards

Hitenism

In 2006, after Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped pioneer what we now call the cloud, product development changed forever. Today, one-third of daily internet users visit websites built on top of AWS. AWS is now an $11.5B Working backwards isn’t a silver bullet that guarantees you success on the scale of AWS.

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Slack moves video and voice calls to AWS

IT World

AWS is already Slack’s “preferred” cloud infrastructure provider, and the two companies have a common rival in Microsoft, competing with its Azure and Teams products, respectively. Chime was launched by AWS in 2017 , but hasn’t grabbed attention in the same way as communication tools such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams in subsequent years.

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Meet the Intercom team at Web Summit 2021!

Intercom, Inc.

Our leading customer communication platform is used by the most innovative companies worldwide, such as Unity, Spendesk, (add approved customer logos in here). Startup party: RSVP for our exclusive evening party to close the week on November 3rd in partnership with AWS and Aircall. Apply for a mentorship meeting here.

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Top SaaS applications from IT and automation leaders in 2024

BetterCloud

Asana : A work management platform aiding teams in organizing tasks, projects, and goals, while enhancing communication and collaboration. Amazon Web Services (AWS) : A leader in cloud computing, offering a wide array of services for storage, databases, networking, and more.

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Using Tailscale to Access Amazon VPCs, EC2 Instances, and RDS Clusters

Crafty CTO

Better Idea: AWS Systems Manager Session Manager Our development partner suggested a better solution, AWS Systems Manager Session Manager , which enables tunneled sessions into the AWS environment and leverages AWS IAM to manage access. The result: better security and no need for manual IP whitelisting.

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Successes and Setbacks on the Road to $1B with Alessio Artuffo, President and COO at Docebo

SaaStr

Customers range from AWS skills-builder platforms with billions of users to Zoom using it for customers and employees. It’s essential that messaging doesn’t get confused when communicating with these different use cases. They’re also growing fast and are nicely profitable. Let’s dive into it.