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I'm in Montreal. If I understand, most of the speed boost I might feel will be EC2 instances and CloudFront stuff. Will it have any effect on S3's latency ?
EDIT: Of course this is dependent on what region you're currently in!
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> Should have Is there a reason it didn't? (i'm not "in the know")
Shit internet up until recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Internet_Exchange
So many companies that legally required a server physically located in Canada are going to be running to AWS now, practically everyone touching health care, government, personal data, or even getting some level of government funding likely was obligated to keep things within Canadian borders.
I work for a large healthcare organization and multiple times have seen group messages instructing staff not to use surveymonkey since the data was hosted in the States, and something about the Patriot act allowing US authorities to view the data without warrants or something.
So many companies that legally required a server physically located in Canada are going to be running to AWS now, practically everyone touching health care, government, personal data, or even getting some level of government funding likely was obligated to keep things within Canadian borders.
I work for a large healthcare organization and multiple times have seen group messages instructing staff not to use surveymonkey since the data was hosted in the States, and something about the Patriot act allowing US authorities to view the data without warrants or something.
We def can't use Dropbox, Google Docs/Drive, anything above Office 2010. Slack is frowned upon even. It is kind of brutal.
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Shit internet up until recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Internet_Exchange
40GB/s??? How does amazon expect to put an entire region in there and to share the 40GB/s with the other hosts already up there (OVH)?
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How can you be sure that data transmitting between the centre and user in Canada doesn't leave Canadian borders?
I don't believe there's any requirements for the data to never cross borders on transmission, just that it must be stored in Canada.
Whether or not AWS, Azure, etc. can meet this...I honestly don't know.
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I don't believe there's any requirements for the data to never cross borders on transmission, just that it must be stored in Canada.
IT Manager in the Canadian Government here. There is indeed a requirement stating that data must not cross the border. This requirement though depends on the department and level of information security. Whether or not AWS, Azure, etc. can meet this...I honestly don't know.
For the curious, the data center is in Montreal according to the press release: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161208006034/en/Amaz...
OVH has a monster data center there too. The region has very cheap power due to a lot of hydroelectric available.