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Amazon does not actually operate any data centres in China. They contract it out, or license their brand name, I am not sure exactly which. I believe to avoid l
by jacques_chester 8y ago
Amazon does not actually operate any data centres in China. They contract it out, or license their brand name, I am not sure exactly which. I believe to avoid legally squiggliness between Chinese law and laws elsewhere.
This causes a lot of annoyances -- lots of features are not available in Chinese "AWS" regions, or they require special treatment. When I've gotten reports about slow, incomplete or stalled downloads from CloudFront it is almost always someone who's inside the Great Firewall.
I guess GCP decided not to bother with that approach for now.
- Kudos 8y agoChina isn't under any embargo that would apply to AWS. Amazon do this to comply with China, not the US.
- jacques_chester 8y agoI didn't say they were under embargo. If they were, AWS would not be present in any form.
- Kudos 8y agoI don't know what part of my comment you were trying to address then.
- jacques_chester 8y agoOn 2nd reading, it doesn't. Overactive pattern matching.
- 1996 8y agoGet hosting in Hong Kong, with a company connected ideally to China Telecom, China Unicom, PCCW, Pacnet. Use GeoIP to serve your consumers in mainland from HK.