19-12-2014 07:04 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Insight - Amazon's cloud business a harder sell in post-Snowden era

By Deepa Seetharaman and Bill Rigby SAN FRANCISCO/SEATTLE (Reuters) - This spring, Taser International Inc won a small but high-profile contract to supply body cameras to the London police. But the deal nearly collapsed over one issue: where the video footage would be stored. In the end, the deal survived only after Taser dropped Amazon.com Inc as the data storage provider for the year-long project. The fact that Amazon did not have a data centre in Britain was a deal breaker for British officia
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