Sorry, already running on EC2 by now...
Introducing the Europe Region, Now Available in Public Beta
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Re: Introducing the Europe Region, Now Available in Public Beta
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, IANAL, but they say they are based on Ireland (in Amazon's EC2 servers), so Irish law (which is a subset of EU law) applies to their servers there. I'm not sure what they keep meaning by "not safe harbour compliant", since the law applies all the time to all people in Ireland....
> Irish law (which is a subset of EU law) Shouldn't that be "superset"?
ahem yes. :)
Re: Introducing the Europe Region, Now Available in Public Beta
#33I'm hopeful that more regions are in the works.
Might we see an Oceania region any time soon?
Re: Introducing the Europe Region, Now Available in Public Beta
#34From a legal standpoint: Does this now comply with the EU (German?) data privacy laws? I was told the other day, that using Heroku was a No-No, because you are storing your customer data with a non-EU-compliant company outside the EU. With this, the data resides in the EU. Does this (magically) make my troubles go away? Remarks: I am totally not a lawyer
Well, IANAL, but they say they are based on Ireland (in Amazon's EC2 servers), so Irish law (which is a subset of EU law) applies to their servers there. I'm not sure what they keep meaning by "not safe harbour compliant", since the law applies all the time to all people in Ireland....
IANAL either, but note that Heroku is an American company and that probably has implications due to the PATRIOT act. Check out what a Microsoft exec had to say about this: "Microsoft cannot provide those guarantees. Neither can any other company" - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/microsoft-admits-patri...