SEO and Cloud Hosting

[LoweProfero-AU]

Hello,

Cant find any clear answers on my issue and hope someone can help.

Rather than being worried about losing local rankings with a move to the cloud, we have the opposite issue. The site is a large, international reference site with millions of visits a month. We have the site on servers hosting in UK, Europe and US.

If we move the site to Amazon cloud hosting (obvious benefits aside), is there a danger of losing rankings internationally (depending on where the cloud datacentre is located)? Are their any other possible pitfalls and counters? Would be grateful for some advice on this.

Thanks

[LoweProfero-AU]

No answers, but I found the answer to this offline. Thought I would note it here for those of you who are interested.

1. In terms of Amazon cloud hosting they have datacentres in specific locations so there is (probably) no worry about losing any gains from localised hosting. Assuming they have a datacentre in the region you need.

2. Related is something I have just learned about is Amazon Cloud Front, a content distribution network in which your content is delivered to a location near to where it is requested from. The main advantage is low latency high speed content delivery but there may be SEO localisation implications