Distribute Globaly, Compute Locally

Amazon Web Services announced today on Werner Vogels' weblog and at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin that Amazon S3 will extend its reach across the Atlantic. After numerous requests, costumers will now be able to store their objects in the European storage cloud. The pay-as-you-go scheme has huge upside to the alternative of paying to build and maintain reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure. Now Europe can benefit from on-demand storage without latency issues of storing objects in the US. Werner Vogel admits there is still a lot of work to be done but this is a very important first step. Check out Vogel's blog and find out how to bucket your objects to take advantage of the European storage cloud.