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Amazon cloud now covers Europe
Amazon.com is taking one of its core web services across the Atlantic.
The online retailer announced that its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service is now available to European developers and businesses with European customers.
It's the latest in a string of moves by Amazon to expand its cloud-computing business, which allows developers to tap the company's vast server network for web-based storage and computing. Amazon recently put large public data sets (including census and genome data) for free in the cloud to attract scientists, researchers and others.
Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) has already been available in Europe for some time.
Here's how the Amazon Web Services blog describes the EC2 offering in Europe: "With the exception of support for Microsoft Windows and for Amazon DevPay (both of which will be ready before too long), every feature of EC2 is available in the new region, including Elastic Block Storage and Elastic IP Addresses."
TechCrunch has more on the rollout of EC2 across the pond, reporting that the pricing structure in Europe is a bit higher than in the U.S. due to cost of running data centers on the continent.
RightScale, a company that works with developers using Amazon Web Services, also blogs on the topic, noting that EC2 is a separate deployment from its counterpart in the U.S.
"The two installations basically share nothing other than the account credentials such that a massive failure in one is extremely unlikely to affect the other in any way," RightScale writes.
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