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Amazon Web Services expands to Canada


SEATTLE – Canadian cable and telco data centre businesses have some new competition now that Amazon Web Services Cloud is available to customers from data centers in Canada.Based in Montreal, the AWS Canada (Central) Region offers two Availability Zones at launch, which refer to technology infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations with enough distance to significantly reduce the risk of a single event impacting availability, yet near enough for business continuity applications that require rapid failover.Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, physical security, and is connected via redundant, ultra-low-latency networks. AWS customers focused on high availability can architect...