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Re:An AWS Region is coming to France by Symbiote on Thursday September 29, 2016 @08:50AM (#12604826)
A 10 year old PDF map [1] shows plenty of other fibre connections. Does everything really go through London?

Locating outside London would be a lot cheaper, for labour, land and power.

[1] http://www.globalcrossing.com/docs/fn/tanet-uk-map.pdf

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Re:An AWS Region is coming to France by alicewales on Thursday September 29, 2016 @09:12AM (#12604933)
There is fibre outside London, but most of the main end-user ISPs have just the one POP and it's normally in Docklands. Everything ends up going through there one way or another.
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