Re: [AusNOG] Australian based cloud storage

2020-11-05 Thread Phillip Grasso
that's incorrect. gcp is entirely different to free consumer products. do more research and you'll see that's not the case. On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 at 14:11, Kai wrote: > Hi folks, > > Thank you for all the feedback, greatly appreciated. > > I read an article yesterday which said that in the same

Re: [AusNOG] Australian based cloud storage

2020-10-25 Thread Brad Eckert
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Re: [AusNOG] Australian based cloud storage

2020-10-25 Thread Nick Stallman
I know paid G Suite email/docs/drive is also very different compared to the free stuff. They still do scan content, but only to provide functionality in the service (e.g. powering search), not to extract data taken outside your account. I've got around 409 million objects stored in AWS

Re: [AusNOG] Australian based cloud storage

2020-10-25 Thread Trevor Peacock
Agreed, I think there's a significant distinction between free/"token payment" user grade "cloud storage" (iCloud, google drive, consumer onedrive etc) and business grade object storage (AWS S3, Azure Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Wasabi, etc etc). I'd want to check the references in your

Re: [AusNOG] Australian based cloud storage

2020-10-25 Thread James Hodgkinson
Pretty sure the user stuff gets parsed, like google drive and photos - I'd be very surprised if they messed with the object/disk storage... James On 2020-10-25 14:42 Matthew Scutter wrote: > Going to call a [citation needed] on that, because it reeks of FUD to me. > > On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at

Re: [AusNOG] Australian based cloud storage

2020-10-25 Thread Nikolai Lusan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Sun, 2020-10-25 at 09:02 +0800, Kai wrote: > I'm searching for Australian based cloud storage. > Google, Microsoft and the other big names might have cache server > here > but the data is also stored overseas, I'm looking for providers who >

Re: [AusNOG] Australian based cloud storage

2020-10-24 Thread Shaun Ewing
: Sunday, 25 October 2020 12:08 PM To: Kai Cc: Ausnog Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Australian based cloud storage   Amazon have a region, ap-southeast-2 which is Sydney based. Can't comment whether stuff that goes into s3 gets replicated elsewhere, I believe you can set the class so it doesn't

Re: [AusNOG] Australian based cloud storage

2020-10-24 Thread Matthew Scutter
Going to call a [citation needed] on that, because it reeks of FUD to me. On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 1:11 PM Kai wrote: > Hi folks, > > Thank you for all the feedback, greatly appreciated. > > I read an article yesterday which said that in the same way that GMail > parses email content for AI

Re: [AusNOG] Australian based cloud storage

2020-10-24 Thread Mark Delany
> But what they *say* is irrelevant. Security is not about intention, > it's about capability. If you want your data absolutely positively > secret, encrypt it. And of course if you trust/verify the SDKs, there is always "Using Client-Side Encryption"

Re: [AusNOG] Australian based cloud storage

2020-10-24 Thread Karl Auer
On Sun, 2020-10-25 at 11:10 +0800, Kai wrote: > Does anyone know if Microsoft, AWS or other providers may allow > themselves access to stored files? AWS says that they do not access data unless required to by law or in the normal course of providing the service (same FAQ). But what they *say*

Re: [AusNOG] Australian based cloud storage

2020-10-24 Thread Kai
Hi folks, Thank you for all the feedback, greatly appreciated. I read an article yesterday which said that in the same way that GMail parses email content for AI learning and targeting ads, that Google cloud storage may also index content, including facial recognition, with any photo's, for

Re: [AusNOG] Australian based cloud storage

2020-10-24 Thread Johann Kruse
Google, Microsoft, and AWS all have Australian regions and storage services that keep data in-region. You can replicate data elsewhere if you need, but it's not mandatory. On Sun, 25 Oct 2020, 12:02 Kai, wrote: > Hi folks, > > Happy weekend. > I'm searching for Australian based cloud storage.

Re: [AusNOG] Australian based cloud storage

2020-10-24 Thread Karl Auer
On Sun, 25 Oct 2020, 12:02 Kai, wrote: > > Google, Microsoft and the other big names might have cache server > > here but the data is also stored overseas, I'm looking for > > providers who either allow you to choose your cloud storage > > location, or only have hosting within Australia, and have

Re: [AusNOG] Australian based cloud storage

2020-10-24 Thread Giles Pollock
Amazon have a region, ap-southeast-2 which is Sydney based. Can't comment whether stuff that goes into s3 gets replicated elsewhere, I believe you can set the class so it doesn't, but you'd need to talk to someone at AWS to confirm. On Sun, 25 Oct 2020, 12:02 Kai, wrote: > Hi folks, > > Happy

[AusNOG] Australian based cloud storage

2020-10-24 Thread Kai
Hi folks, Happy weekend. I'm searching for Australian based cloud storage. Google, Microsoft and the other big names might have cache server here but the data is also stored overseas, I'm looking for providers who either allow you to choose your cloud storage location, or only have hosting