{"id":18573,"date":"2015-11-06T15:59:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T15:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=238712"},"modified":"2015-11-06T15:59:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T15:59:44","slug":"aws-announces-uk-will-be-its-third-region-in-the-eu-by-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/aws-announces-uk-will-be-its-third-region-in-the-eu-by-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS announces UK will be its third region in the EU by 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Web Services (AWS) is to add a UK region to its empire. On its opening date, mooted for the end of 2016 or early 2017, it will be the third region in European Union and the 12<span style=\"font-size: 10.8333px;\">th<\/span>\u00a0in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The presence of an AWS region brings lower latency and strong data sovereignty to local users.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon organises its \u2018elastic computing\u2019 by hosting it in multiple locations world-wide. The locations are, in turn, sub divided into regions and Availability Zones. Each region is a separate geographical area with multiple, isolated locations known as Availability Zones. The rationale being to give instant local response but geographically diverse back up to each computing \u2018instance\u2019 (or user).<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the new UK base in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allthingsdistributed.com\/2015\/11\/aws-announces-uk-region.html\">blog<\/a>, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels promised that all Britain\u2019s ranges of local and global enterprises, institutes and government departments will get faster AWS Cloud services than they have been getting. The new region will be coupled &#8211; for failover purposes &#8211; with existing AWS regions in Dublin and Frankfurt. This local presence, says AWS, will provide lower latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, big data analysis and Internet of Things (IoT) apps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to our customers\u2019 need for capacity,\u201d said Vogels, who promised \u2018powerful AWS services that eliminate the heavy lifting of the underlying IT infrastructure\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The UK government\u2019s Trade and Investment Minister Lord Maude described the decision as \u2018great news for the UK\u2019. The choice of the UK, as the third european presence for AWS is, \u201cfurther proof the UK is the most favoured location in Europe for inward investment,\u201d said Maude.<\/p>\n<p>By providing commercial cloud services from data centres in the UK AWS will create more healthy competition and innovation in the UK data centre market, according to HM Government Chief Technology Officer Liam Maxwell. \u201cThis is good news for the UK government given the significant amount of data we hold that needs to be kept onshore,\u201d said Maxwell.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, AWS evangelist Jeff Barr <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/blogs\/aws\/next-stop-korea\/\">revealed in his blog<\/a> that\u00a0AWS will be opening a region in South Korea\u00a0in early 2016, its fifth region in Asia Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Web Services (AWS) is to add a UK region to its empire. On its opening date, mooted for the end of 2016 or early 2017, it will be the third region in European Union and the 12th in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[619,57,1992,1976,3355],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-aws","category-datacentre","category-news-analysis","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18581,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18573\/revisions\/18581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}