Physical data location on cloud

Question

we are starting a SaaS solution and we need to know the geographical location of the data storage, and ensure that the provider will not store data in a restricted country.

Is this possible on any cloud provider such as Amazon, IBM or Azure ? Do you have any experience with this ? thank you

Answer 1

The Windows Azure Trust Center lists the locations of all datacenters, in its Privacy page:

• Asia: East (Hong Kong) and Southeast (Singapore)
• Europe: North (Ireland) and West (Netherlands)
• United States: North Central (Illinois), South Central (Texas), East (Virginia), and West (California)

When deploying your app, you choose the specific datacenter you want. Same goes for your storage accounts and SQL Azure databases.