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Data sovereignty is a huge deal in Europe. There is no way a US hosting provider can gain a meaningful market share without using local facilities. See Amazon's
by shykes 17y ago
Data sovereignty is a huge deal in Europe. There is no way a US hosting provider can gain a meaningful market share without using local facilities. See Amazon's ec2-eu-west.
That means losing the advantage of a weak dollar, since you'll be paying a lot of bills in the local currency.
- davidw 17y agoI wonder if they'd be able to get around that with some kind of legal promise. Also, that's primarily going to affect European companies storing their data on US servers, right? US companies offering services where Europeans go and sign up for them is more of a caveat emptor situation, I think.
- anamax 17y ago> Data sovereignty is a huge deal in Europe. There is no way a US hosting provider can gain a meaningful market share without using local facilities. That's not obviously true. The US' Safe Harbor scheme is acceptable in the EU for some things. Google "safe harbor eu data" for general information and "appengine safe harbor eu data" for a specific case.
- shykes 17y agoIt doesn't matter what's acceptable from a legal standpoint. The overwhelming perception in Europe is that hosting data in the US is a risk. That perception might not be entirely grounded in reality, but it has a very real impact on the market.
- anamax 17y ago> It doesn't matter what's acceptable from a legal standpoint. I agree. > The overwhelming perception in Europe is that hosting data in the US is a risk. Which stakeholders have that perception? (Serious question.) Specifically, what kind of customers care? What kind of investors care?