Wednesday, December 10, 2008

[ Cloud Computing ] Re: EC2 available in Europe

2008/12/10 Dan Kearns <dan.kearns@gmail.com>
>> http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/12/amazon-ec2-crosses-the-atlantic.html
>>
>> What other differences in laws between the US and EU are relevant here?
>
> It's interesting that they don't mention where in Europe the center actually is. That's kind of important to know, eg presumably it is not in France? Maybe it's only
> "in Europe" in the latency sense, but really they bought a datacenter boat off of Google and run it from international waters?
>
> How do we know a cloud datacenter is where it claims to be anyway?

According to RightScale it's in Ireland
(http://blog.rightscale.com/2008/12/09/amazon-launches-in-europe/).
But maybe since there are: eu-west-1a and eu-west-1b could be second
location. If they got few location for Amazon CloudFront guess won't
be huge problem make also EC2 there.

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Łukasz Jagiełło
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