Rumour has it that this was supposed to be a joint announcement - London and Mumbai together, but eu-west-2 is now just one example of an IT project on hold.
AWS opens India warehouse
AWS has opened a new bitfarm region located in India. The cloud giant says that the new datacenter in Mumbai will help improve performance for customers in India specifically. The new region will support Amazon EC2 C4, M4, T2, D2, I2, and R3 instances. Mumbai will be the fifth APAC region, joining locations in Tokyo, Sydney, …
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Wednesday 29th June 2016 19:43 GMT Anonymous Coward
Highly unlikely. This is India going live, not India being announced for future delivery.
That means that a tonne of capex has been sunk and there have been close consultations with government, key customers and the staff who manage them.
If they were this far down the road with a UK datacentre then a change in their RoI metrics at the last minute might make them feel stupid for having picked it, but it's hard to imagine it would stop them going live at that point.
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