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I've been hearing stronger and stronger rumours about them opening in Sydney sometime soon, most often linked to a partnership with Equinix's big new datacenter in Alexandria...

(google google google) here: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/280702,amazon-chooses-sydney-f...

And searching Amazon.com's careers section shows vacancies for Data Center Ops Manager and various other management positions.

_Surely_ it'll be soon?

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> Surely it'll be soon?

I'm not sure how that follows. There are more than 5 times as many internet users in Brazil than Australia, and about 13 times as many in the whole of South America.

A lot of my customers find the latency from Australia to southern Asia, EMEA, or North America far higher than what' typical with South America to North America. Might be a user experience play more than anything else.

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