allthingsdistributed.com - 12/10/2008
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Starting today the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) supports the ability to launch instances in multiple geographically distinct regions. The new EU region enables users to launch instances in Europe.
This addresses the requests from many our European customers and from companies that ...
business.timesonline.co.uk - 12/16/2008
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business.timesonline.co.uk —
Amazon, Britain s most popular website for Christmas
shopping, is making its staff work seven days a...
week and threatening them with the sack if they take time off sick. The company charges among the lowest prices for products ranging from books and ...
(more)
Revealed: Amazon staff punished for being ill
techflash.com - 12/12/2008
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techflash.com —
James Hamilton, one of the big brains behind
Microsoft's data center strategy, has left the company, according...
to a note on his Microsoft home page . And we just confirmed that he's headed across town to Amazon.com, one of Microsoft's key rivals in ...
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Key data center architect leaves Microsoft, headed for ...
guardian.co.uk - 12/8/2008
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guardian.co.uk —
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is reviewing its
decision to list as "child pornography" the image on...
one version of the album "Virgin Killer" by the rock band The Scorpions hosted on Wikipedia – and might yet add Amazon US to its list of ...
(more)
Wikipedia row escalates as internet watchdog considers ...
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Amazon Launches EC2 in Europe [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... Today Amazon launched its Elastic Compute Cloud in Europe, where it joins Amazon’s CloudFront and Simple Storage Service as an option for European developers. This means companies using Amazon Web Services can host the data and run their applications in Europe, rather than host the data in Europe and run the apps in the U.S. This cuts down on latency and the costs of sharing data between EC2 and S3 in Europe. However, those in Europe will have to ...
Geography Still Matters in the Cloud
Know It All —
The World Wide Web erases distance, and the computing cloud makes location an afterthought, except, as it turns out, when distance and location still matter.
"Starting today the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) supports the ability to launch instances in multiple geographically distinct regions. The new EU region enables users to launch instances in Europe."
From the announcement: ...
Amazon Web Services increases Europe service
Amazon & the online retail blog —
... of Amazon Web Services' pay-as-you-go computing offering. Creating "availability zones" in Europe gives Web developers there lower latency and the ability to park their EC2 applications next to data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service, or S3, which is already available in Europe. "This addresses the requests from many (of) our European customers and from companies that want to run instances closer to European customers," Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels said in his blog . "Over the past year I have visited with many of our European customers and frequently ...
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Amazon Web Service's European vocation —
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With the announcement today that Amazon is making EC2 available in two new EU-based availability zones, the cloud community has its first "regulation compliant" infrastructure. What does all this mean to the future of cloud computing and the law?
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