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Re:AWS announces new region in Canada by simonebrunozzi on Thursday December 08, 2016 @07:09PM (#13135565)
You need proximity to a ton of people to become the Datacenter capital; I doubt Montreal qualifies.
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Re:AWS announces new region in Canada by smathieu on Thursday December 08, 2016 @08:09PM (#13135860)
Montreal is the 19th largest metropolitan area in North America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_metropo...

It's also very close to the American North East for data transfer...

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Re:AWS announces new region in Canada by ficklepickle on Thursday December 08, 2016 @08:57PM (#13136072)
600km(~360 miles) by road from NYC... Could possibly be worthwhile if the energy is significantly cheaper*

* Pure speculation on my part

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Re:AWS announces new region in Canada by dghughes on Thursday December 08, 2016 @09:18PM (#13136168)
I think the GTA has as many people ~8 million as all of Quebec ~8 million.
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Re:AWS announces new region in Canada by betaby on Thursday December 08, 2016 @10:41PM (#13136496)
No, GTA is ~6M and Greater Montreal ~4 GTA is not that big in terms of population and very sparse comparable with other big metros.
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