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Re:AWS Frankfurt, Germany Region by fidotron on Thursday October 23, 2014 @10:24AM (#8498251)
Indeed - although the Microsoft vs US gov nonsense regarding Ireland is really the US gov taking their own cloud businesses out and shooting them, because it makes no difference where the data is if the operating company is HQed in the US.

That said, I wouldn't be so naive as to trust any government not to be attacking cloud providers, but it's important for companies making decisions to understand the jurisdictions their data will end up being regulated by.

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Re:AWS Frankfurt, Germany Region by thrownaway2424 on Thursday October 23, 2014 @01:34PM (#8499491)
You'd also have to be pretty naive to think that the german intelligence apparatus isn't out there actively attacking and subverting cloud datacenters. Google formerly operated datacenters in Munich, Frankfurt, and Berlin, but they're all shut now.

http://www.quora.com/How-many-data-centers-does-Google-have http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/05/15/googl...

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