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Factual Connects Location Data Into AWS Data Exchange

Los Angeles-based location data provider Factual said Wednesday evening that it has made its Places data available in the AWS Data Exchange, a new service rolled out by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to allow its customers access to third party data via the cloud. According to Factual, AWS customers can discover and purchase access to its Places data sets, which includes information on over 130 million places and points of interest across 52 countries. Factual's data includes such data as business locations and hours. According to the AWS Data Exchange site, access to Factual's Canada POI Dataset, for example, costs $5,000 a month, or $60,000 a year; access to the Factual USA POI Database is listed at $10,000 a month, or $120,000 a year.