Major cloud companies, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, are reportedly exploring plans to redirect data centre workloads from parts of West Asia to locations such as India and Singapore. This reported move follows recent disruptions in the region caused by the conflict between Iran, and the US and Israel. A report by the Economic Times cited people familiar with the discussions to make this claim.“Immediate capacity is being sought in locations including Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi to reroute critical workloads, especially for banking clients. Keeping latency in mind, these are the best-suited locations,” an executive at an infrastructure company told ET. In this case, latency refers to the impact of distance on data processing speed.The discussions follow drone strikes on March 2 that hit two AWS data centres in the United Arab Emirates and another in Bahrain, disrupting several digital services across the region. The outages affected banking…
AWS Data Centres : After AWS data centres in Dubai hit, why Amazon and Microsoft may be looking to reroute West Asia data centre workload to these cities in India | – The Times of India
