{"id":237434,"date":"2017-11-14T11:02:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T09:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=237434"},"modified":"2017-11-14T11:23:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T09:23:56","slug":"amazon-selling-web-services-unit-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/237434-amazon-selling-web-services-unit-in-china.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon selling web services unit in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing Sinnet Technology will buy Amazon&#8217;s web services business in China for up to R4.4 billion, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-amazon-cloud\/amazon-to-sell-china-cloud-services-unit-in-300-million-deal-idUSKBN1DE0CL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Sinnet is Amazon&#8217;s partner in China and operates the company&#8217;s services.<\/p>\n<p>It said the acquisition will help the business\u00a0comply with local laws and regulations. It would also &#8220;further improve service quality and security&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s regulators have laid down stricter rules for foreign cloud service providers,\u00a0with more scrutiny of cross-border data transfers and additional\u00a0surveillance measures.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s laws also make companies liable for content considered dangerous or offensive to socialist values.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Sinnet received instructions from the Chinese government to shut down VPN services that let subscribers\u00a0circumvent China&#8217;s &#8220;Great Firewall&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/237414-amazon-to-make-the-lord-of-the-rings-tv-series.html\">Amazon to make The Lord of the Rings TV series<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing Sinnet Technology will reportedly buy Amazon&#8217;s web services business in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":237506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[723,27543],"class_list":["post-237434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-web-services-aws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237480,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237434\/revisions\/237480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}