Amazon has speedily become one of the largest players in the burgeoning global cloud computing market since it launched its Web Services division in mid 006. A wide number of online services are available through the service, including the provision of storage, virtual compute instances and databases.
In that time, the company hasn’t put down roots in Australia, with local organisations instead using Amazon’s services hosted in datacentres located within countries such as Singapore and the US. However, all that may be about to change, according to The Australian.
This morning, the newspaper reported that a local datacentre was slated to be unveiled by early 2012. Three Sydney sites were on the selection list, with one datacentre provider being Equinix, which maintains one of the Southern Hemisphere’s largest datacentres in Sydney’s Darling Harbour — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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