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Yep - I agree with you 100%, just pointing out what their page says. I'd love to see B2 get more data centers around the world - when we have to do a 500GB restore on a server in Germany, it's already slow even pulling from S3 - with B2 it would be even slower.

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Curious - if we open a region in Europe, do people care where?

I know many German companies require you to store data on servers also located in Germany. (But I have no idea if it's similar in other countries.)

Is it within Germany, or is it just within the EU?

Restricting it to Germany would seem anti-competitive on an EU level, which is usually not allowed. But I don't know the laws.

Depends. But if there are rules about keeping it in-country, you should consider storing it not at a storage provider. Mostly, it is important to keep the data in the EER. So germany is fine. Moving data out of the EU is a big issue, although I have been using B2 but encrypt my data first myself.

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