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Not to hijack this thread - but does anyone know of an Amazon-like 'cloud' provider that's located in Canada? AFAIK, none of the providers listed here have the
by corry 14y ago
Not to hijack this thread - but does anyone know of an Amazon-like 'cloud' provider that's located in Canada? AFAIK, none of the providers listed here have the option to store data in Canada.
Basically, I want to use S3 and EC2 for most things we do - but we sell to MASH in Canada and they'll run for the hills if we're storing stuff in the US (Patriot Act, etc).
(If anyone from Amazon is reading this - open a data center in Canada already! :)
- true_religion 14y agoI did a quick bit of checking and couldn't find anyone (like you). My gut is telling me that few will open data centers in Canada when NJ/NY and Washington State are right there across the border. Latency won't be a big driver for that. Would a EU/Australian data center do? Ninefold has one for Aussies, and I bet if you looked there's competition available in the EU. Also, see if you can't get Amazon S3 to store only in their Ireland data center.
- corry 14y agoSadly, I think another locale is off the table too. Would be better than the US, but still "not in Canada". Thanks though - hopefully you're right and we see some developments soon.
- nl 14y agoIf you use a US company then they are subject to the Patriot Act no matter where the servers physically are.
- fraserharris 14y agoCanada Cloud Computing would be able to tell you.