In the Works – AWS Region in Canada

Re:In the Works – AWS Region in Canada by ihsw on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @11:02AM (#10895243)

Probably unrelated. Many companies that work with Canadian data are required to keep it within Canada as mandated by the Canadian government, as has been for a fairly long while.

This allows those companies to use AWS rather than moving over to local hosting/compute/etc providers, and personally I have found the domestic hosting environment to be quite poor.

This is a great day for Canadian developers.

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Re:In the Works – AWS Region in Canada by matdrewin on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @11:56AM (#10895673)

It is related. Even though you are hosting data in Canada, the US government may still have access to the data via Amazon (because it is a U.S. based company) depending on the outcome of that case.

Canadian companies are not required to keep data in Canada - http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2011/04/cloud-computing-and-pri...

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