Its worth commenting that we here in Microsoft Azure team (our cloud platform) have data centers in 30 regions including UK, Germany, etc. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/regions/
Our platform is very mature now I wish more folks would give it a shot.
I don't know how it currently compares with AWS but some time ago the disk IO was a lot slower, and the prices were way higher.
Does anyone know of recent comparisons?
> p.s. we also take EU people data privacy very seriously.
Hmmm. I find that very hard to believe.
MS is going to have to be _very_ good for a _long_ time to overcome firing the late Caspar Bowden (then MS' chief privacy adviser) for telling regional managers that the NSA can pwn their customers' data. https://twitter.com/casparbowden/status/542588420611379201