Honestly this is great news! As the article says, many German companies insist on their data being hosted in a data center in Germany when buying SaaS (for whatever reason). So far, there haven't been any viable options when it comes to "full-stack" IaaS service providers here (except Profitbricks maybe, which doesn't even come close to AWS in terms of functionality or pricing though), so I'm really excited to see Amazon entering this market.<p>Of course the problem remains that Amazon is a US company and thereby required to cooperate with US authorities and hand them over customer data if requested, so some businesses might still not want to host their data there. Still, I'm excited that they're finally coming to Germany
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Note, a region is not a data center. A region is a collection of two or more Availability Zones (AZ). You can think of an AZ as a data center.<p><a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/images/aws_regions.png" rel="nofollow">http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/images/aw...</a>
I'll wait to see how this pans out first, thanks...<p><a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-06-microsoft-court-overseas.html" rel="nofollow">http://phys.org/news/2014-06-microsoft-court-overseas.html</a>
I'm excited about the pricing, hopefully it's not more expensive than Ireland... Maybe even cheaper, although I won't get my hopes up with electricity prices in Germany being so high.
I am happy that this is called central. I would like to see more recognition to Central Europe in geo-political world as current line between west and east Europe do not make much more sense anymore. Central europe culture and economy ties makes it strong candidate to new order - West Europe Central Europe and East Europe.
I am thrilled to see what Amazon will have to offer!
Hopefully this will drive many DE ISPs out of business. Strato, 1&1 and Hetzner are incapable of providing anything besides dumb webhosting and cheap bare metal stuff. I've wasted so many hours trying to explain these companies how the world is changing, they never got it and now it's too late to build anything that could compete with AWS.<p>They (1&1, Strato, HostEurope, Hetzner, …) don't even try to provide OpenStack packages or something leightweight-ish using Docker, except if you pay every single hour of their manual work. 1&1 build something called ProfitBricks.de which focusses of "designing your infrastructure in the browser", however they build a big Java EE legacy framework with a nasty SOAP-API. Their sales pitch is something like "we are cheaper than amazon/they rip of their customers".<p>And still they neither contributed support to LibCloud or fog.io so neither Chef, Puppet, Ansible nor SaltStack work out of the box with it. I don't understand those people.