THE DATA CENTRE INTERVIEW
“ When we decided to build the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, there would have been no way to predict which AI instances were going to be the most popular, or how many customers were going to need them,” Colm notes.“ Those are fields that change so quickly, so we also have to have enough flexibility and agility in our designs to be able to pivot at a moment’ s notice and respond to what our customers need.”
That balance between consistency and adaptability – templated enough to deploy quickly, flexible enough to absorb shifts in workload demand – is what Colm describes as central to the entire build strategy.
“ That fine level of detail extends to the access control systems we use, which are all maintained inside the EU”
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