Amazon Opens Data Centers to Boost U.K. Cloud Services
- Will allow company to compete for government, health contracts
- Move comes as competitors also open new U.K. data facilities
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Amazon Web Services, the cloud-hosting arm of Amazon.com Inc., opened new data centers in the U.K. as it seeks to stay abreast of competitors in offering cloud computing services to government and health-care customers.
The new data centers, announced in a statement on Wednesday, follow decisions by IBM and Microsoft Corp. in the past two months to expand their cloud computing infrastructure in the U.K.