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		Amazon Will Set Up Asia Pacific Cloud Infrastructure in Singapore (e27.sg)
		20 points by e27sg on Nov 13, 2009 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 3 comments

michaelneale on Nov 13, 2009 | [–]

I assume they have some arrangement with the government to not funnel any traffic through their local joke-of-censorship proxies.

recurser on Nov 13, 2009 | | [–]

Great news. Users here in japan have ridiculous amounts of bandwidth to burn, and it's always seemed a bit of a shame to serve them from amazon's Europe/US centers.

prakash on Nov 13, 2009 | [–]

Why Singapore, why not HK?

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