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Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

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Re: Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

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Post by TeeWEE »

yulunli wrote: post #22
methou wrote: post #12

Route trace from Beijing Unicom Residential network, looks like packets are routed through japan, not sure if it's just temporary or will be improved later. (Comparing 50+ms from Beijing to other providers in Korea): 3 5 ms 6 ms 3 ms 61.148.160.169 4 8 ms 7 ms 6 ms 124.65.57.117 5 6 ms 7 ms 6 ms 123.126.0.77 6 36 ms 38 ms 39 ms 219.158.7.22 7 109 ms 103 ms 105 ms 219.158.23.10 8 42 ms 39 ms 41 ms 219.158.19.81 9 165…

AWS(China) has been in preview for more than a year. Not sure when that will reach GA.

The Communist Party has a lot of 'requirements'. First of all you have to offer them a sigaret.

Re: Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom »

oblio wrote: post #23

Man, Africa looks really sad. I was looking through their region list ( http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html ) and everything is in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. Africa's nowhere to be found.

What is the killer app for a hosting region in Africa? All I have seen is gamers in South Africa complaining about the ping times to servers located in EU making real-time games not worth playing for them. But that's a relatively niche market.

It's ironic, as some of the AWS dev work was done there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Elastic_Compute_Cloud#H...

Re: Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

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Post by toomuchtodo »

meirelles wrote: post #37
ksec wrote: post #6

On the other hand, OVH will have 12 more DC open this year, Starting with Portland and Ashburn in US, then Singapore and Australia.

Will be awesome OVH in Ashburn. Perhaps only 1-3 ms away from AWS us-east.

YAY! Cheap compute from OVH and cheap storage from S3!

Re: Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

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Post by rsync »

oblio wrote: post #23

Man, Africa looks really sad. I was looking through their region list ( http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html ) and everything is in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. Africa's nowhere to be found.

Even more sad, according to our customers and sales leads, is the lack of a Canadian presence. It's getting harder and harder to believe that they have nothing in Canada.

I think we[1] are going to open Montreal this quarter[2]. Not much help if you need EC2 style services, but if you just need to store some data in Canada ... you'll have an option. Drive-up service too.[3]

[1] rsync.net. HN-readers discount. Email.

[2] with he.net bandwidth @ 10gb/s

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10259763

Re: Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

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Post by simonebrunozzi »

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #42
oblio wrote: post #23

Man, Africa looks really sad. I was looking through their region list ( http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html ) and everything is in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. Africa's nowhere to be found.

What is the killer app for a hosting region in Africa? All I have seen is gamers in South Africa complaining about the ping times to servers located in EU making real-time games not worth playing for them. But that's a relatively niche market. It's ironic, as some of the AWS dev work was done there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Elastic_Compute_Cloud#H...

When I was at AWS I visited South Africa for a conference, and paid a visit to the local office in Cape Town. I don't think I can disclose any other detail (number of people, etc), but it is public knowledge that there is a substantial workforce still there, doing development and support.

The problem with an AWS region in Africa is, in my view, that there's not a large market to support the idea. South Korea is for sure more interesting.

Re: Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

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Post by frik »

ebroder wrote: post #32
cjg_ wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not that strange that they not are offering previous generation hardware at new locations.

I'd argue that m3 and c3 instances shouldn't be classified as "previous generation", since the m4 and c4 instances don't have any local ephemeral storage. Given the recent EBS incident in GovCloud, I think it's still pretty reasonable to be skeptical of EBS.

Is this the only source? https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/3yv2db/aws_ebs_vo...

Re: Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

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Post by arcdigital »

jlgaddis wrote: post #20
bashtoni wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AWS have at least 32 DCs - all regions have a minimum of two data centres for proper ha. There are four more scheduled to come online this year, India and UK. If you think ovh and aws are comparable in anything but the very broadest terms you've not understood what AWS are offering.

I believe Ohio (3 AZs, IIRC) is supposed to come online in 2016 also, but I could be mistaken.

Yep :)

Re: Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

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Post by denisu »

Censored internet access though (Korean Porn-Blocker)

   [ec2-user@ec2 ~]$ curl youporn.com
   
   var arg = "http://warning.or.kr";
   var str = new Array();
   str = arg.split("&", 1);
   var a = new Array();
   a = str[0].split("=");
   var b = Math.floor(a[1] / 100);
   var c = new Array();
   if(b == 10){location.replace("http://www.naver.com");}
   else if(b == 20){location.replace("http://www.daum.net");}
   else if(b == 30){location.replace("http://www.paran.com");}
   else{ c = a[0].split("?");
   location.replace(c[0]);}

Re: Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

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Post by aerioux »

eric-hu wrote: post #8
aerioux wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GCE's multi-regional buckets are quite awesome though and cheaper than paying Amazon to move between regions

Could you go into what the price difference is or what your use case is? Just curious in what situations I might want to consider Google over S3.

honestly i think http://blog.zachbjornson.com/2015/12/29/cloud-storage-perfor... does a better job than i could*

* benchmarks are easily fakeable - please don't bet your company on one

Re: Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

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Post by bashtoni »

nl wrote: post #28
cjg_ wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's just a Direct Connect location right? Not the actual Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

I'm guessing Equinix aren't allowed to say AWS is in their DC. But their equipment is in there, 100% guaranteed (or at least was in 2012). Edit: Here's a better reference: Equinix yesterday launched phase two of its Sydney 3 International Business Exchange datacentre facility (SY3-II) in Alexandria, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) onboard as one of its first customers.... It was only confirmed yesterday — despite it b…

AWS have two dedicated DCs ('AZs') in Sydney. For services that require quorum (Dynamo, SQS, S3 and others) they also have a private third 'AZ' in SY3-II. When you get an EC2 instance it is always in a dedicated DC, not Equinix.
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