Amazon don’t know that Spain exists?

As some of you know I work for an spanish Start-Up called Unience (www.unience.com) we have been using Amazon AWS since late 2007 and we have deployed all our infraestructure on Amazon AWS services using  All of them!!! I am sure not to many companys can say the same….

Well, today Amazon announce the 3rd Annual AWS Start-Up Challenge, and again .. if you are Spanish..Portuguese … Italian… French (for example) you can’t enter in competition… only United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Israel

Why only the companies from this countries can compite? What’s up?

this is the text they have send to their clients

Announcing the 3rd Annual AWS Start-Up Challenge
The AWS Start-Up Challenge has launched and once again we are looking for the most promising start-ups that are building their businesses on AWS infrastructure services. Start-ups in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Israel are encouraged to apply for a chance to win $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, mentoring sessions from AWS technical experts, and AWS Premium Support Gold for one year.

The 2008 Challenge winner, John Barr, VP of Yieldex says, “Winning the AWS Start-Up Challenge last year put our business on the fast track. Since then, we’ve successfully raised $8.5 million dollars and grown at least two orders of magnitude in each of the data processing categories we measure, including 40 billion monthly impressions under management and 3 terabytes of data processed daily in the cloud.” To learn more and enter the competition, visit the AWS Start-Up Challenge home page.