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Re:OVH: PaaS DB PostgreSQL by _Codemonkeyism on Monday May 02, 2016 @05:35AM (#11610193)
I'm mainly interested in EU SaaS (because being in the EU). For EU companies - the verdict is still out - EU locations of US companies might not be enough. One reason why Microsoft lets Azure in Germany be run by Dt. Telekom.
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Re:OVH: PaaS DB PostgreSQL by karambahh on Friday May 06, 2016 @09:40AM (#11643856)
Many of our customers start including request to the effect of "hosting in the EU, preferably operated by a EU based company".

AFAIK, one of the reasons OVH had for not setting shop in the US a few years back, but choosing Canada instead was to not expose its flank to possible actions by US agencies. They even feared "contamination" to their EU based datacenters.

I guess either the law has changed or their lawyers found their way through the arcanes of international law, since they are now officialy planning to open a datacenter in the US.

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