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Technically the French announcement should be first if they want to follow language laws. :)

I'm glad to hear this, as it was rather silly that a whole bunch of companies in Canada couldn't use AWS because of requirements around where their data must be stored. Now they will be able to.

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They're announcing that they will be in Quebec. They're not in Quebec yet, and thus not subject to Quebec advertising laws yet. ;-)

Touché

  Touché

I wonder if it'd be possible to write an announcement that uses English words with French origins, sort of like how Zolotas made speeches in English that used Greek words.

Edited to add, for the curious:

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~themis/ewords/zolotas.html

It's easy if you're talking about food and restaurant related things.

Silly? You are ok with a judicial system from a different country ruling over who can access your health or tax records?

Being on Amazon in Canada may not help you depending on the outcome of this: http://europe.newsweek.com/does-us-warrant-apply-data-stored... (as mentioned by @axelfontaine below)

And the requirements pertaining to Canadian data actually staying in Canada are largely overblown: http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2011/04/cloud-computing-and-pri...

Oh I meant it the other way around. That Amazon was foolish for not doing this sooner.

In Quebec? Everything else at least in Ontario is English first.

Quebec != Ontario

Quebec is very protective of it's "French" culture.

Well, mostly the French language. It's certainly not France culture, which is why I assume you're using the scare quotes, although of course there's quite a bit of cultural exchange coming from France.

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