[davidjgraph]

Aside from the politics, this causes me to have 2 questions:

1) Are there any cloud file storage systems along the Drive/DB lines in Russia that apps providers can integrate with?

2) Not that anyone here knows the answer, but will the cloud storage providers implement data routing that complies with these rules (I guess yes, if the money is worth it)?

If anyone here is interested in country specific SaaS integrations (Germany, Brazil and Russia, for example), my email in profile.

[tonymon]

1) Yes, there is. For example Selectel: http://selectel.com/services/cloud-storage/ based on OpenStack API, very easy to integrate.

>Data storage ~0.088$ for 1GB per month or ~0.131$ for 1 TB per hour

>Network (outgoing traffic) ~0.023$ per 1GB

>Network (incoming traffic) free-of-charge

They also recently announced CDN option with Akamai partnership at no additional cost