Amazon to invest $12.7 billion in cloud infrastructure in India

[INDIAPOSITIVE]

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[CallSignMaverick]

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[Redbeanpaste]

Does this mean there is going to be a lot of sensitive Indian data on American servers controlled by the US of A?

 

[pikkuboss]

Does this mean there is going to be a lot of sensitive Indian data on American servers controlled by the US of A?

It's the opposite. They are going going to build huge data centers, cloud computing rigs all across India. A few are already there. It means data of many countries will be stored in India mostly from ASEAN, Gulf Arab and South Asian countries including Pakistan. Of course they won't share these data with the govt of India but we never know right?

 

[Paitoo]

Does this mean there is going to be a lot of sensitive Indian data on American servers controlled by the US of A?

It means data of many countries will be stored in India mostly from ASEAN, Gulf Arab and South Asian countries including Pakistan. Of course they won't share these data with the govt of India but we never know right?

Data centres do not have access to their clients' data.

 

[Redbeanpaste]

Data centres do not have access to their clients' data.

They really cannot access or they are not legally "allowed" to access? ....two very different things.

 

[Paitoo]

They really cannot access or they are not legally "allowed" to access? ....two very different things.

They cannot access the data. There are multiple layers of security, the data centre level security being just one of them. Client has their own set of controls, which cannot be breached by the data centre. Moreover, we need to distinguish between pureplay data centres who only provide the physical infrastructure, and those who provide cloud hosting and other services. Amazon does both through AWS, but many provide only the physical infra. In any case, neither of them can access their client's data. What they can do, is prevent access altogether. Of course, the government can always confiscate the servers, but they still need to break into them.

 

[srshkmr]

So more regions in the central and north-west of India are a possibility since we have one in Hyderabad and Mumbai.

 

[pikkuboss]

So more regions in the central and north-west of India are a possibility since we have one in Hyderabad and Mumbai.

One in Kolkata to serve the eastern and North East is also possible.

 

[nahtanbob]

Does this mean there is going to be a lot of sensitive Indian data on American servers controlled by the US of A?

most of the data is commercial.
government/health care/financial data have their restrictions and safeguards

 

[srshkmr]

One in Kolkata to serve the eastern and North East is also possible.

yeah very much likely.

Does this mean there is going to be a lot of sensitive Indian data on American servers controlled by the US of A?

AWS offers two types of cloud, one for regular commercial with multiple layers of security and encryption at the data centre level, and then the engineers can configure security policies at their server/application level, The second one is gov cloud which is pretty much like an isolated data centre. Although the latter is only available in the US

 

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