Amazon CTO Werner Vogels writes about cloud developments in Holland.  One small thing of note in this long post is Ohpen, a Dutch core banking system supplier is moving their platform to AWS (Amazon cloud).

Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud All things Distributed

Ohpen – The Dutch banking regulator, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), has cleared the path for Dutch financial institutions to make use of AWS.  Dutch firm Ohpen has already moved to take advantage of the ruling by choosing AWS to host its core banking platform in an on-demand, software-as-a-service environment. According to Chris Zadeh, the CEO of Ohpen,  large Dutch banks are already moving their entire retail banking platforms to the cloud using Ohpen core banking technology running on top of AWS.