Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced it will be opening a region in Canada. The cloud region will be located in Quebec, and is set to go live sometime this year.
Writing on the AWS blog, evangelist Jeff Barr said: “The planned Canada-Montreal region will give AWS partners and customers the ability to run their workloads and store their data in Canada.”
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Barr said that the region, which will be powered by a cluster of data centres near Montreal, will be carbon-neutral and run almost entirely by “clean, renewable hydro power”.
But now, with this announcement, Canadian customers who want to keep their information within the country will be able to use Amazon’s whole cloud IaaS offering.
“As always, we are looking forward to serving new and existing Canadian customers and to working with partners in the area,” said Barr. “Of course, the new region will also be open to existing AWS customers who would like to process and store data in Canada.”
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Our whole province is powered by hydro power and has been for almost a hundred years whoopee. Try doing something innovative and stop taking credit for the good planning of other people.