Very cool to see Microsoft addressing the major impediment for many of our clients' cloud plans 👏
Clemens Vasters 🇪🇺📨🇮🇱🇺🇦 @clemensv
21 Sep 2016
Microsoft Cloud Germany 🇩🇪 is now open for business blogs.microsoft.com/blog/201… #Azure
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how is this different from eu-central?
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German jurisdiction, no direct access for employees of a company bound by US law
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how do you know this?
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Well, that's how they advertised it. No reason to trust them any less than, say, IBM Deutschland GmbH
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or 'any more'. ;)
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Sure. But many companies won't enter into a contract agreement with a US cloud provider
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as long as the mother is in the U.S., I think it's fishy. But you would probably be interested in @SysEleven's OpenStack platform.
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Replying to @klimpong
I agree, but given how many German companies do business with IBM, HP, CSC, etc., that doesn’t seem to be an issue.

Sep 26, 2016 · 12:26 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
so most of this is PR-related in terms of AWS?
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With AWS, the contractual party is a US entity, not a German company. To many people, this matters, whether justified or not
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