The update actually refers to EU-based instances. That is, datacenters in Europe.

locally? you mean the data-centers are in Europe?

Yep, they are in europe. (the service has always been accessible worldwide, but all servers were US based, while S3 was US and Europe)

Yeah, we ran US located instance from EU for a while, the news is the “Availability Zone” now provided in Europe for Ec2 * => ie: data center in europe

But, anyway, that’s a pretty pretty good news !

This is pretty cool news, for a few european legal reasons related to privacy it’s easier collecting user personal data if you store it in europe

How about Asia Pacific? I’m looking forward about this.

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What about Latin America? If not, are there any reputable companies offering such services in the region?

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Doesn’t actually matter the least bit… Poland, Germany and maybe others require you to host you’re servers in the respective country… Europe is not Europe if you know what I mean… and I doubt Amazon having set up data centers in all European countries.

Finally Amazon has realized that going regional and focusing on the special needs of that location than global is the best shot in recession. They should have read http://www.nichea.info

The whole infrastructure is located in Ireland, updated the post.

Excellent!
I wonder when they will launch FPS in Europe? Does anyone know?

Good news.

But what I’d be more interested in is : have they increased the Bandwidth capacity between s3 and EC2?

At the moment, there’s no easy way to use Amazon S3+EC2 for mass video streaming ; if I’m not mistaken, the max bandwidth for a LARGE instance is about 450mb/s, which is simply not enough if you plan to stream live content to a huge audience… (it simply becomes too expensive and complicated)

It’s not in “Euros”, it’s in “Euro” ;)

What kind of requirements are that? ;-) There is none that requires you to run a server for a business in the designated country.

There are however different regulations in regard to working with data (or for web2 pros: UGC). I doubt this update addresses any of that. For a business from Europe EC2/S3, GAE and so on are still not usable in its current state.

till,

US privacy regulations are -according to the EU- not at the same strict level of privacy. So hosting private data in the US can bring legal troubles.

However all (if not, most) EU countries and few other (I think Canada was one of those) have similar levels of privacy regulations and therefore one can host without trouble or additional permisions.

In Spain I have not heard of any case of company being sued because of hosting in the US, however if the data privacy agency begins to look into this issue, fines of up to EUR 600.000 can be placed. :-(

Great!

But the Eu could do with access to devpay and the use of a Solo card payment structure.

Pre-pay would also be good.

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As I said. Per se, there is no law that requires that. For example, I can rent a dedicated server (physical hardware) in the U.S. and host my European clients on there. I can also ship hardware to the U.S., and colocate etc..

With cloud computing it’s different, primarily because the providers (GAE, EC2/S3, …) do not guarantee that the data you delete on your instance, is really deleted within their system. And that’s the subtle (important) difference.

One thing to take into account is the type of data, for example – as long as it’s my own website, files, etc. then there is no issue. If I run a social network and my customers upload files etc., then cloud computing is not suitable.

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