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Have to wonder how much of the push for more EU AWS regions comes from dealing with a potential exodus from the London region due Brexit (e.g. because of data protection issues)

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Data centre in Dublin is well established (UK centre is fairly new IIRC?) and there is zero chance of Ireland leaving the EU, so I doubt this is the reason.

The German one is also older than the UK one.

I imagine the greater concern is the deep integration between the NSA, GCHQ and ISPs in the UK and USA.

Sweden cooperates with the NSA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defence_Radio_Establi...

Err.. The Swedish FRA[1] is in cahoots with the ones you mention. I doubt that's the concern.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defence_Radio_Estab...

In Sweden we've got "FRA", which is one of NSA's BFFs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defence_Radio_Establi...

FRA, the Swedish national authority for signals intelligence, is well-known for collaborating with the NSA.

As if any first-world government weren't already monitoring everyone as best they can?

AFAIK the US and UK share the databases access(or have an easy/fast way to share info - sorry I forgot where I got this information so I don't have a link tas a proof but I think is already a known fact) so hopefully NSA has to do more paperwork before asking other EU country for data.

it's not just the US and UK - they're just 2 members of the intelligence sharing community. There's Five Eyes, bringing in Canada, New Zealand and Australia, and from there the scope widens considerably: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement#9_Eyes.2C_14_E...

I think (with no basis in reputable source) it's more just that Amazon see a large potential market in Europe that current Regions can't cover. There're also possibly local data laws / policies that mean not every company could use one of the existing Regions.

Dude, you'd not believe how big the demand on the UK region is.

Care to elaborate?

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