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		gingerlime on March 15, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Google Compute Engine stacks up to Amazon EC2 "Multi-region images We’re not quite sure why AWS doesn’t support this, but images on GCE are multi-region (“multi-zone” in their terms)" Whilst images are not multi-region, you can now copy them[1] across regions with AWS. [1]http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/03/12/announc...

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Keeping the image in one region allows the customer to guarantee data provenance - EU folks don't want their data accidentally getting stuck on US servers (and the other way around).

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