My company has regulatory constraints that require all data to be hosted in Australia. Are there any plans to offer getstream.io hosted in the ap-southeast-2 AWS region?
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Jeremy
Yes it's possible, but running a full cluster for 1 company is expensive. Contact sales at getstream dot io to learn more.
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Thierry
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Currently, I am working on establishing enterprise-scale landing zones for Cloud Adoption Framework in Azure.
I understand that inventory of the existing on premises applications and infrastructure is must to prepare the good landing page architecture.
How do I gather the inventory, is there any tools to do this? What and all should I include in the inventory?
For me i think you should use Microsoft Azure Advisor to give you an advice of the cloud infra you would need and Azure TCO to calculate the difference of the on premises and cloud infra or the Azure calculator to calculate the cloud infra price
Microsoft Azure Advisor: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/advisor/
Azure TCO: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/tco/calculator/
Azure Calculator: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/
Also i advice you to look for the long time booking 3/5 years; like that you will gain a reduction of nearly 70% of the total price
Hope that my answer helped you and wish that you would vote me up if it did :D thanks alot in advance ....
I work for a company based in germany and we already released an "assistant-app" but because of some EU Data-Security restrictions and such we have to store the data from the assistant app somewhere in europe.
Is it possible to create (for example) a new aog project and specify that it has to be EU hosted?
Does anyone have another idea?
The german "Datenschutzgrundverordnung" is really "special" ;)
Thanks in advance!!
You can contact Google's partner team for more details and try the enterprise account. For storing data in the database, you could use GCP's cloud data store and set it for the EU region. Firebase on the other side will make copies around the world as per my knowledge so that you should avoid.
Reach out to Dialogflow and ActionOnGoogle teams for the exact solution.
I'm developing and application which allows users to upload and download media content: songs, videos...
My concern is that if my servers are located let's say in the Europe region for customer from America the application will feel very slow.
I was thinking to have something similar to Amazon S3 buckets created in different regions, then a client located in the Europe region will upload, download from the Europe region, a client from the Asia region will upload, download from the Asia region and so on.
Then in some how find the way to synchronize all this buckets.
Is it possible?
Any better solution?
Thanks for your help
Sounds like a problem to consider using a CDN to solve. I'm familiar with Azure but I'd assume the competitors have similar offerings.
Google offers multiple regions and zones to host your app:
General overview:
https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/
Specific to cloud storage (which would probably host your content)
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/bucket-locations
And finally the info for Google CDN is at https://cloud.google.com/cdn/
I'm just learning about Azure so forgive me for my naivety. I work for a federal government that would be very hesitant to have their applications and data hosted in another country. Could a local company offer "Azure" services? i.e. could software developers in a government department build their applications and deploy them to the Azure cloud, ensuring that their data stays within the country? Or would they have to look at a non-Microsoft cloud provider?
Data and Compute will reside in the datacenter you specify. Blobs, Tables and Queues are also backed up automatically to a paired data center:
San Antonio <--> Chicago
Dublin <--> Amsterdam
Hong Kong <--> Singapore
You can opt-out of cross-datacenter data backup if data sovereignty becomes an issue. Once opted-out, data would only be in the specified data center, and you'd need to handle DR on your own (by possibly backing up data to on-premises storage).
Aside from those 6 datacenters, Fujitsu runs a Windows Azure data center in Japan. See this press release for more info.
Yes, when you create your Azure service you can specify what region (of the country) it runs in.
I'm not sure if you know this, but the Federal CIO (Vivek Kundra) is really pushing hard for Agencies to move to the cloud. You might want to check out Info.Apps.Gov for guidelines on the Federal Cloud initiative and resources for what you can and can't do.
To answer your immediate question: No. Only MS hosts Azure to my knowledge. I do know that Amazon is bending over backwards however to accommodate Government clients and you can control which datacenters are used on that service. MS appears to have a similar capability per the other answer to this question.
As far as I can tell, these are the only locations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_Services_Platform#Datacenters
If they're that concerned about data security though, they should deal directly with Microsoft, not buy Azure services that same way a client usually would. Microsoft may be able to arrange something depending on budget (but probably not).
Edit: What I'm basically saying is, Microsoft is not going to arbitrarily do special licensing. Meaning you either need a large enough budget to convince MS to build a data center in your country, or you need some other way of convincing MS to allow Azure services hosted in your country. Also, I hate to sound paranoid, but if you're worried about America seeing your data, you likely should avoid Ameican companies.
If there isn't a Windows Azure Data Centre in the relevant country, but you still want to use Azure, you'll need to look at a hybrid cloud model where data remains resident in a private cloud. However, in-flight data can still present complications for some organisations and Azure may not be the right answer in all cases.
If you like, I can talk about it some more using Chat. The company I work for specialises in just these cases and has the only production Windows Azure data centre that isn't owned by Microsoft (and isn't in the US). Probably best not go into further specifics here, though, for fear of my answer looking like pure spam!
I've been looking around for a simple ondemand billing solution.
My scenario is the following:
My customers use virtual credits on my website.
Payment option 1)
Customers can buy virtual credits buy suppliying a credit card.
Payment option 2)
Customers can register their credit card for automatically getting billed when credits are running low.
I know google does this for their API usages. Any one have a good idea of a provider that can achieve this in a simple way? I want to outsource the whole process to not run into any PCI compliance issues. Also I would like the hosted solution to be wihtin our site (ifram in a popup). The majority of our customers are companies.
If you are in the US you can use Authorize.Net's Customer Information Manager (CIM) API to create payment profiles for your customers. Then you can charge against those profiles at any time to add credits when they are running low. They offer a hosted CIM option which greatly reduces your PCI compliance issues.
I've been looking at Stripe.com lately. They offer a very simple to use API which seems to be very well thought out. They offer on-demand and subscription billing, good documentation, and their costs are not out of line (2.9% + $.30 per txn) considering you don't have to get a merchant account. They are US-based.