Comment on How Google Compute Engine stacks up to Amazon EC2Comments−gingerlime13y"Multi-region imagesWe’re not quite sure why AWS doesn’t support this, but images on GCE are multi-region (“multi-zone” in their terms)"Whilst images are not multi-region, you can now copy them[1] across regions with AWS.[1]http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/03/12/announc...−count13yKeeping the image in one region allows the customer to guarantee data provenance - EU folks don't want their data accidentally getting stuck on US servers (and the other way around).
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"Multi-region images
We’re not quite sure why AWS doesn’t support this, but images on GCE are multi-region (“multi-zone” in their terms)"
Whilst images are not multi-region, you can now copy them[1] across regions with AWS.
[1]http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/03/12/announc...
Keeping the image in one region allows the customer to guarantee data provenance - EU folks don't want their data accidentally getting stuck on US servers (and the other way around).