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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

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Yesterday, AWS evangelist Jeff Barr wrote that AWS will be opening a region in South Korea in early 2016 that will be our 5th region in Asia Pacific. The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union (EU), and we're shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017).

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

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Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in France! Over the past 10 years, we have seen tremendous growth at AWS. As a result, we have opened 35 Availability Zones (AZs), across 13 AWS Regions worldwide. As a result, we have opened 35 Availability Zones (AZs), across 13 AWS Regions worldwide.

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Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage.

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Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was launched in 2006 as "Storage for the Internet" with the promise to make web-scale computing easier for developers. The goal for operational excellence in Amazon S3 (and for all other AWS services) is that it should be "indistinguishable from perfect". Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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