The Germans are “Clouding”: New AWS cloud region spotted
July 7, 2014
Grazed from TheRegister. Author: Jack Clark.
Amazon looks set to open a data center in Germany, allowing European developers to access Bezos & Co’s rentable computer tech with lower latencies. Evidence first gathered by a manager at a Berlin-based startup and subsequently verified by El Reg indicates that Amazon’s next cloud computing data center may be in Frankfurt, Germany. The cloud giant’s other European facility is in Ireland.
The new center will give customers in central and Eastern Europe a more responsive lower-latency option when renting AWS resources, and could assuage some concerns among German companies about who exactly can tap up their data. Germany has some of the strictest information privacy legislation in Europe and its citizens, partly due to the troubled history of the country, have a healthy skepticism for anything that looks remotely like mass data gathering. And, following the revelations by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, these concerns have only grown…
"Keeping data in their own country was most important to German ICT decision-makers (32 per cent of respondents agreeing), followed by the UK (24 per cent) and France (23 per cent)," a recent survey found. Data centers take such a long time to build, though, that Amazon is likely to have been planning the German site, and securing electricity contracts and so on, far in advance of the Snowden revelations…
Read more from the source @ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/07/amazon_german_datacenter/