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>Specifically, it plans to open an AWS-based data center in Frankfurt in the first half of next year, and it will set down more roots in Asia-Pacific, with offices in Sydney and Tokyo.

Is it normal (in tech journalism, at least) to say "opening an AWS-based data center?" I had to read that a few times over because I thought the article switched to an Amazon article.

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This is a wild guess, but mentioning Frankfurt specifically simplifies a lot of the discussions one might have with European customers, especially around GDPR and other regulations. Not sure the value of mentioning AWS though, but it does has a very good presence in Frankfurt.

> and it will set down more roots in Asia-Pacific, with offices in Sydney and Tokyo

meaning they will provision AWS instances in these locations?

As far as I know, we are not planning on adding AWS instances there at this time. Those are locations for offices we plan to open.

"AWS-based data center" reminds me of the way the term "data room" is used in business bookkeeping. A bunch of print-outs in a secure part of the building representing your business's books, is a "physical data room." But a bunch of digital files in a secure part of a server, if those are also a representation of your business's books, is referred to as a "virtual data room."

In a similar sense, an AWS VPC is a "virtual data center."

I just utilized my SMTP-based global communications network.

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