Coming in 2018 – New AWS Region in Sweden

Re:Coming in 2018 – New AWS Region in Sweden by pdpi on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @06:56AM (#14031296)

Have to wonder how much of the push for more EU AWS regions comes from dealing with a potential exodus from the London region due Brexit (e.g. because of data protection issues)

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Re:Coming in 2018 – New AWS Region in Sweden by dazc on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:42AM (#14031508)

Data centre in Dublin is well established (UK centre is fairly new IIRC?) and there is zero chance of Ireland leaving the EU, so I doubt this is the reason.

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Re:Coming in 2018 – New AWS Region in Sweden by rsynnott on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @10:55AM (#14033273)

The German one is also older than the UK one.

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Re:Coming in 2018 – New AWS Region in Sweden by redcalx on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:18AM (#14031400)

I imagine the greater concern is the deep integration between the NSA, GCHQ and ISPs in the UK and USA.

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Re:Coming in 2018 – New AWS Region in Sweden by sebcat on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:25AM (#14031426)

Sweden cooperates with the NSA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defence_Radio_Establi...

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Re:Coming in 2018 – New AWS Region in Sweden by Zolomon on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:24AM (#14031423)

Err.. The Swedish FRA[1] is in cahoots with the ones you mention. I doubt that's the concern.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defence_Radio_Estab...

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Re:Coming in 2018 – New AWS Region in Sweden by nallerooth on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:26AM (#14031436)

In Sweden we've got "FRA", which is one of NSA's BFFs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defence_Radio_Establi...

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Re:Coming in 2018 – New AWS Region in Sweden by metafunctor on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:27AM (#14031448)

FRA, the Swedish national authority for signals intelligence, is well-known for collaborating with the NSA.

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Re:Coming in 2018 – New AWS Region in Sweden by reason_police on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:21AM (#14031414)

As if any first-world government weren't already monitoring everyone as best they can?

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Re:Coming in 2018 – New AWS Region in Sweden by simion314 on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:25AM (#14031425)

AFAIK the US and UK share the databases access(or have an easy/fast way to share info - sorry I forgot where I got this information so I don't have a link tas a proof but I think is already a known fact) so hopefully NSA has to do more paperwork before asking other EU country for data.

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Re:Coming in 2018 – New AWS Region in Sweden by beaconstudios on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @08:12AM (#14031669)

it's not just the US and UK - they're just 2 members of the intelligence sharing community. There's Five Eyes, bringing in Canada, New Zealand and Australia, and from there the scope widens considerably: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement#9_Eyes.2C_14_E...

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Re:Coming in 2018 – New AWS Region in Sweden by jk563 on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @08:53AM (#14032004)

I think (with no basis in reputable source) it's more just that Amazon see a large potential market in Europe that current Regions can't cover. There're also possibly local data laws / policies that mean not every company could use one of the existing Regions.

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Re:Coming in 2018 – New AWS Region in Sweden by moonbug on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:27AM (#14031441)

Dude, you'd not believe how big the demand on the UK region is.

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Re:Coming in 2018 – New AWS Region in Sweden by lucaspiller on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:32AM (#14031465)

Care to elaborate?

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