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

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This region will provide even lower latency and strong data sovereignty to local users. 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). Public Sector & Not-for-Profit – UCAS , Makewaves , JustGiving.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

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A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, and more.

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

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It will also give customers another region where they can store their data with the knowledge that it will not leave the EU unless they move it. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. iZettle, a mobile payments startup, is also ‘all-in’ on AWS.

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

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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. Supercell is a mobile game developer, based in Helsinki, Finland, with over 100 million people playing their games every single day.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

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This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

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

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Based in the Paris area, the region will provide even lower latency and will allow users who want to store their content in datacenters in France to easily do so. Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in France! The new region in France will be ready for customers to use in 2017.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

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Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. The advanced Asia Pacific network infrastructure also makes the AWS Tokyo Region a viable low-latency option for customers from South Korea. Spot Instances - Increased Control.

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