Amazon Committed to U.K. Data Center Opening Despite Brexit
- Web Services group plans opening by early 2017 as planned
- Working with European Union committee amid Brexit process
Amazon serves customers from 13 data-center clusters worldwide and plans to open four additional locations in the coming year.
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Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing division remains "committed" to opening a London data center by early next year, even after the British public’s vote for the U.K. to leave the EU.
It will also offer local customers the option of hosting data in Germany or Ireland, a company executive said Thursday.