Amazon’s cloud business a harder sell in post-Snowden era
December 19, 2014
Grazed from Reuters. Author: Editorial Staff.
This spring, Taser International Inc won a small but high-profile contract to supply body cameras to the London police. But the deal nearly collapsed over one issue: where the video footage would be stored. In the end, the deal survived only after Taser dropped Amazon.com Inc as the data storage provider for the year-long project. The fact that Amazon did not have a data center in Britain was a deal breaker for British officials, according to Taser.
The case is an example of the challenges that Amazon faces as it works to expand its cloud computing business, known as Amazon Web Services (AWS). In cloud computing, clients store and process data on remote servers accessed by the Internet, as opposed to storing information in local servers…
Since Edward Snowden exposed the vast reach of the U.S. National Security Agency’s surveillance programs 18 months ago, government agencies and companies around the world have been evaluating where they keep their most sensitive data…
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