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New China (Beijing) Region Coming Soon
- davidw 13y ago> This Region will allow China-based and multinational companies to make use of a broad collection of AWS services while remaining in compliance with China's legal and regulatory requirements It'll be interesting to see how that works out in practice.
- mtrimpe 13y agoFrom my previous encounters with China related requirements their main policy seems to be 'our data never leaves the country.' It's an interestingly prescient decision with the Snowden revelations as a backdrop. If that was really the original motivation for China's policies then Amazon's US ties could spell trouble in the long run though.
- techdragon 13y agoIn before the next Snowden leak reveals NSA canceled their deal with amazon in order to make this deal happen so they could spy upon Chinese companies even easier.
- yRetsyM 13y agoKey detail here: "You will need to create an AWS account that is specific to the Region." Be a completely isolated region by the sound. My question, will this open up that region to more external developers?
- Cookingboy 13y agoProbably partially due to a different Terms of Services being required for a Chinese account, such as "Local government agencies will have 24/7 full access to your data, and they can shut down your server for any reasons without prior notices", etc.
- oddx 13y agoHow it's different from same implicit Terms for accounts in USA?
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- qwerta 13y agoPerhaps in China agency needs court order? :-)
- sp332 13y agoThey won't share the data with the NSA, as the GCHQ and other agencies would :)
- melling 13y agoAnother stupid NSA comment. Well, since you made the joke... I would bet that it is legally easier for the Chinese govt to get to your data, and they might be willing to share some of it with our govt for the right favors.
- sp332 13y agoI'm not arguing that it's easier or harder for the Chinese government to get your data in China than it is for GCHQ to get your data in Britain. I'm only pointing out that they are less likely to give all that data to the NSA. This could be important if you care about which government is reading your data.
- melling 13y agoYeah, sure if you want to believe that. Let's hope the bad guys are that dumb, it'll make them easier to catch. We should just outsource the NSA to China so people feel safer, and it will cost less money.
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- franksmule 13y agoVery interesting.. But I can't see it being much use for foreign developers unless they make getting an ICP license easier.
- Fuxy 13y agoI don't blame the guy there's money to be made from hosting in China as well. But i suspect this will end up being an isolated island in their system limited to the Chinese market only.
- beachstartup 13y ago> limited to the Chinese market only yeah, limited to $9 Trillion, 9% growth Chinese market and the economies that sell into it such as anyone in the entire world.
- peterkelly 13y agoNow I can finally launch my online backup service which stores each piece of customer data as a random number in the US, and an XOR of that random number and the actual data in China.
- t0 13y agoAny ideas on cost? As an example, the Tokyo region is much more expensive for EC2.
- zmh 13y ago"while remaining in compliance with China's legal and regulatory requirements." It could mean Chinese Government will start blocking main AWS services outside of China to avoid noncompliance's just like what it did with Google search.
- mark_lee 13y agoKindle does not sell well in China, AWS as well