Amazon Spins Up New Cloud Division for Europe

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They say the clouds in Europe are different anyway.

Amazon said Wednesday that its AWS cloud division is launching a "European Sovereign Cloud." That means that AWS' Europe business is breaking away from the core business, though not enough to be a bona fide spinout. It's a move aimed at soothing increasingly irate European regulators, and possibly scooping up government contracts along the way.

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Source Fool.com