You don’t want hospitals to share data in case you are in another city and have to go to the hospital?

willtemperley 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The data should reside exactly where they’re needed and nowhere else. For the UK NHS that’s probably in a UK data centre run by a UK company. Not AWS.

The fundamental problem with SaaS and pure server side applications is we do not know where the data are. With local first we can verify data locality.

	▲	flumpcakes an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Unfortunately the American companies are using their monopolies to price out everyone else. You're now in a situation where it's harder and harder to find people in the UK that can operate data centre services at the speed and quality of the cloud providers. The UK/EU needs it's own GCP/AWS/Azure alternatives. Unfortunately there's not really anyone close.
	▲	reeredfdfdf 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Here in Finland our government decided that best place to store national election related data (including the votes) is AWS data center in Sweden. Looking forward to Jeff deciding which party wins next year!

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jszymborski 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sure! I'm just talking about data residence. They can transfer data over the internet (or some inter-hospital network) no problem. It's just a matter of "local-first".