Amazon's European Cloud based in Dublin
8th of November 2007 by conor
Werner Vogels, Amazon's CTO, announced the Euro S3 storage cloud at Web2Expo on Tuesday. An informed source has just let us know that the cloud will be served from their Dublin datacenters. This is the second major coup in this area for Dublin in a week.
As Vogels said on his blog:
This has been a frequently requested feature by our European customers for various reasons, better latency control being the most important one. This is very important first step as it brings Amazon Web Services closer to the world-wide application development platform our customers want it to be. There is a lot of work that still needs to be done to make the services the absolutely best tools for international internet-scale application development, but the ability to control where you store your objects is an important first step.
It looks like all that dark fibre will soon go bright.
Comment posted by Michele
at 11/14/2007 5:32:18 AM
Amazon Ireland is the first Amazon to join an internet exchange and several of us are already actively peering with them at Inex
Michele
Comment posted by Conor O’Neill
at 11/14/2007 5:42:36 AM
Now if only they'd let us buy something other than books from the co.uk site, I'd be a happy bunny 
Oh and enable all the same RSS feeds as the .com site!
Comment posted by Michele
at 11/14/2007 5:46:28 AM
Which RSS feeds?
Comment posted by Conor O’Neill
at 11/14/2007 5:54:31 AM
My Purchases, My Wish List, My Reviews. All available on .com site as RSS feeds.