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Re: AWS announces new region in Canada

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Post by zetterbergs »

nacho2sweet wrote: post #25
giarc wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I work in education, and in BC we have the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) that stops us from using anything good. SurveyMonkey just went and bought a Canadian run survey company and moved all the servers, we had to drop our contracts... everyone is left without anything. We def can't use Dropbox, Google Docs/Drive, anything above Office 2010. Slack is frowned upon even. It is kind of bru…

Hi all, I'm the CPO and founder of www.surveypal.com and I just got a tip to comment on this thread. We have been working hard for the last months to get all our servers up and running in Canada and we finally went live two weeks ago. Go check us out and feel free to reach out with any questions you may have. Our contact info is on the website.

Re: AWS announces new region in Canada

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Post by richerlariviere »

dgemm wrote: post #83
richerlariviere wrote: post #48

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It is located in Montreal downtown

There are multiple sites, and if it's anything like other regions, then one at most would be downtown

https://twitter.com/affairesmtl/status/807221404961800193

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Post by metaloha »

skylan_q wrote: post #65
metaloha wrote: post #64

When did Montreal become "central" Canada? Why didn't Amazon call it Canada East instead?

As far as I've ever known, Ontario and Quebec are central Canada.

Looking at a map, I guess I can see Ontario being close to central Canada (along with Manitoba and Saskatchewan), but Quebec is definitely almost as East as it gets, and since the data centre is in Montreal...

Re: AWS announces new region in Canada

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Post by grecy »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #84
grecy wrote: post #58

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I worked for a very, very big Canadian telco. Same requirement - data must not leave Canada, which ruled out basically all "hosted solutions"

It would be virtually impossible to comply with the never crossing the border as part of a fast link even if you hosted your own data unless you controlled every part of the link. http://www.servercloudcanada.com/2015/09/canadian-privacy-la... There are only 3 provinces that require storage in Canada: BC, NS and QC. And even then, that is for public sector organizations only.

I was in a territory (not a province) and we owned every meter of fiber in two territories.

I can assure you the data we were sending around didn't even leave our territory, let alone the country, seeings we owned every single scrap of networking hardware in a ~10,000km radius.

Re: AWS announces new region in Canada

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Post by dgemm »

richerlariviere wrote: post #112
dgemm wrote: post #83

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There are multiple sites, and if it's anything like other regions, then one at most would be downtown

https://twitter.com/affairesmtl/status/807221404961800193

You can read about what constitutes a region in the AWS documentation, and it's not one building downtown.

Full disclosure: I work there.

Re: AWS announces new region in Canada

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Post by giarc »

zetterbergs wrote: post #111
nacho2sweet wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I work in education, and in BC we have the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) that stops us from using anything good. SurveyMonkey just went and bought a Canadian run survey company and moved all the servers, we had to drop our contracts... everyone is left without anything. We def can't use Dropbox, Google Docs/Drive, anything above Office 2010. Slack is frowned upon even. It is kind of bru…

Hi all, I'm the CPO and founder of www.surveypal.com and I just got a tip to comment on this thread. We have been working hard for the last months to get all our servers up and running in Canada and we finally went live two weeks ago. Go check us out and feel free to reach out with any questions you may have. Our contact info is on the website.

Our organization purchased a license with Survey Select (https://selectsurvey.net/). I've used it a bunch of times and it seems very powerful but not user friendly (very complicated UI/UX).

I recommend reaching out to other health organizations within Canada as they often collect survey data internally. For example, surveys get used for feedback for presentations/educational sessions all the time. With the exception of Alberta, all provinces have separate health authorities which would mean separate contracts/sales cycles etc, however they are usually of large size so it would be worth it financially.

Re: AWS announces new region in Canada

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Post by wyck »

dx034 wrote: post #101
wyck wrote: post #57

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OVH is actually located right inside a hydro dam about 15 minutes away from the city: http://www.hydroquebec.com/visit/monteregie/beauharnois.html

Where do you see that info? Couldn't find anything that they're actually in the dam, rather very close by?

Its mentioned on the wiki page , and several trade magazines about servers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauharnois,_Quebec It's on the dam's land and about 300 meters from the actual dam itself.

Re: AWS announces new region in Canada

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Post by kahnpro »

mthoms wrote: post #95
kahnpro wrote: post #71

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Because it _is_ central Canada? The Atlantic provinces are Canada East.

You say that so definitively. Like anyone is stupid to even question it. But the Central Canada thing is merely a historical artifact and has no real basis in, well you know, actual geographic location . Quebec actually extends farther east than all other provinces (except Newfoundland). In other words, it's farther east than 3 out 4 so called "Atlantic" or "Eastern" provinces.

It's a mix of geography, demographics, and history. But I say it definitivly because it's not just something I've made up or decided... it's a pretty well known designation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Canada

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Post by kahnpro »

wattt wrote: post #105
kahnpro wrote: post #71

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Because it _is_ central Canada? The Atlantic provinces are Canada East.

The center of Canada is Winnipeg.

There's the geographic centre, and there's the region known as Central Canada. Two different things.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Canada

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