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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Canada (Central) Region

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It adopted Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR and AWS Lambda to power its data warehouse, big data, and data science applications, supporting the development of product features at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions. Kik Interactive is a Canadian chat platform with hundreds of millions of users around the globe.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

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Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises—as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations—can use the new AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. They can run applications in Sweden, serve end users across the Nordics with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and more.

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