Any idea where the datacentres are? I know that amazon doesn't disclose it, but should be noticable to have 2-3 new huge data centres? Would guess 1 AZ in Slough and the other one in the docklands (if they have 2AZs)?
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#32It's nice AWS focuses more in the EU. But how does AWS align with EU data protection laws now and in near future (in the regards of being a American company operating in the EU).
Responsibility is on the AWS customer to abide by data sovereignty laws that may apply to them.
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There are reasons to be alarmed at the "throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks" approach. Like perhaps you decide to use a product that they're not particularly interested in supporting very well, and a year later they decide to shutter the service which performs a crucial role in your environment... I am not suggesting that Amazon is actually going to do this, but it's certainly more likely than, say, EC2 going…
Aside from SimpleDB which was replaced by DynamoDB and Elasticache I'm not aware of any withdrawn services in AWS' history
Elasticache is still there, and it is still getting updates and new features: Redis got bumped to 3.2 a few months ago, and they also added managed sharding support.
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#34Any idea where the datacentres are? I know that amazon doesn't disclose it, but should be noticable to have 2-3 new huge data centres? Would guess 1 AZ in Slough and the other one in the docklands (if they have 2AZs)?
AFAIK AWS doesn't fully build and manage their own datacenters, they usually just lease a bunch of space in an existing one that's good enough.
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#35Any idea where the datacentres are? I know that amazon doesn't disclose it, but should be noticable to have 2-3 new huge data centres? Would guess 1 AZ in Slough and the other one in the docklands (if they have 2AZs)?
They appear to have 2x100G links at LINX to Slough Equinix, so I'd guess they have at least 1 AZ in Slough space leased from Equinix. I hope they know that Slough isn't in London.
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My guess is that Trump winning has accelerated the moving of a lot of data off US property.
Wow I had no idea it only takes 1 month to plan and build a a brand new datacenter! In all seriousness, no. There's no way in hell Amazon would rush something like this just because of the election results. The risk is too high compared to the (probably very little) reward.
Oops I didn't mean to imply they built it from scratch in the last month. I wasn't clear. I meant they may have rushed the final steps a few months. Not possible?
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My guess is that Trump winning has accelerated the moving of a lot of data off US property.
Wow I had no idea it only takes 1 month to plan and build a a brand new datacenter! In all seriousness, no. There's no way in hell Amazon would rush something like this just because of the election results. The risk is too high compared to the (probably very little) reward.
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