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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by rr808 on Sunday October 05, 2025 @09:12PM (#45486716)
There is some data privacy requirement in SK where application servers and data have to remain in the country. I worked for a big global bank and we had 4 main instances of our application: Americas, EMEA, Asia and South Korea.
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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by bradly on Sunday October 05, 2025 @09:33PM (#45486820)
When I worked on Apple Maps infra South Korea required all servers be in South Korea.
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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by srj on Monday October 06, 2025 @01:32AM (#45487941)
It was the same at google. If I'm remembering right we couldn't export any vector type data (raster only) and the tiles themselves had to be served out of South Korea.
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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by chatmasta on Sunday October 05, 2025 @09:15PM (#45486728)
If only there were a second data center in South Korea where they could backup their data…
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