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Re:We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime by NomDePlum on Friday January 19, 2024 @02:49AM (#39052765)
No. It is only relatively recently (~5/6 years) AWS have had any data centres in the UK.

That blocked use of AWS for a lot of UK departments due to data sovereignty concerns.

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Re:We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime by kunwon1 on Friday January 19, 2024 @09:34AM (#39055906)
I see. I don't use AWS much, I saw this [1] and assumed this was like the US g-cloud.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/g-cloud-uk/

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