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AWS London Region (eu-west-2) now available

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Re: AWS London Region (eu-west-2) now available

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Post by nindalf »

atonse wrote: post #4

I was wondering why so many announcements of non US data centers all of a sudden, in some cases very limited. My guess is that Trump winning has accelerated demand for companies to move their data off US property, and cloud providers are scrambling to meet that demand.

I don't think so. Planning, constructing a data center and setting up all the hardware within and the connectivity to the data center is a massive investment of time and resources. These newly announced centers have been in the pipeline for a long time, long before anyone had any idea about the outcome of the election.

The more likely cause was that cloud providers could see the trend towards countries instituting data residency requirements, which was clear last year.

Re: AWS London Region (eu-west-2) now available

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Post by vacri »

peteretep wrote: post #2

Is there any obvious reason why the services currently available are so limited as compared to eu-west-1? Would we expect it just to grow with time?

Yes, this is the way regions develop. The grandpappy with everything is us-east-1 (well, historically anyway, which is why it also gets all the outages...), and the services slowly migrate out to other regions from there. You'll see new regions start to pile on services as time goes on.

Often they'll just pop into existence quietly. Our Sydney setup only had two AZs, and a few months ago, I noticed a third one. No idea when that came to life, but it would have been useful a year before :)

Re: AWS London Region (eu-west-2) now available

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Post by nodesocket »

Here is a list of all AWS regions where EC2 is supported, since I have to support new regions for my own startup (https://commando.io).

UPDATED: I also added the hourly cost (in US dollars) of a c4.large instance in each region to compare. I picked c4.large since it's a nice starter instance for "webish" workloads.

  $0.10 - US East (N. Virginia) [us-east-1]
  $0.10 - US East (Ohio) [us-east-2]
  $0.124 - US West (N. California) [us-west-1]
  $0.10 - US West (Oregon) [us-west-2]
  $0.11 - Canada (Central) [ca-central-1]
  $0.11 - Asia Pacific (Mumbai) [ap-south-1]
  $0.114 - Asia Pacific (Seoul) [ap-northeast-2]
  $0.115 - Asia Pacific (Singapore) [ap-southeast-1]
  $0.13 - Asia Pacific (Sydney) [ap-southeast-2]
  $0.126 - Asia Pacific (Tokyo) [ap-northeast-1]
  $0.114 - EU (Frankfurt) [eu-central-1]
  $0.113 - EU (Ireland) [eu-west-1]
  $0.119 - EU (London) [eu-west-2]
  $0.155 - South America (Sao Paulo) [sa-east-1]

Re: AWS London Region (eu-west-2) now available

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Post by OJFord »

That product x region matrix...

How many products is 'enough' for Amazon, before they begin to consolidate?

I can't be alone in thinking the vast range is off-putting, not to mention the more range there is the more AWS-specific it is, making it simultaneously harder and more important to figure out the right choice...

Re: AWS London Region (eu-west-2) now available

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Post by smegel »

nodesocket wrote: post #13

Here is a list of all AWS regions where EC2 is supported, since I have to support new regions for my own startup ( https://commando.io ). UPDATED: I also added the hourly cost (in US dollars) of a c4.large instance in each region to compare. I picked c4.large since it's a nice starter instance for "webish" workloads. $0.10 - US East (N. Virginia) [us-east-1] $0.10 - US East (Ohio) [us-east-2] $0.124 - US West (N. Cal…

Are there regions that don't support EC2?

Re: AWS London Region (eu-west-2) now available

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Post by Johnny555 »

smegel wrote: post #15
nodesocket wrote: post #13

Here is a list of all AWS regions where EC2 is supported, since I have to support new regions for my own startup ( https://commando.io ). UPDATED: I also added the hourly cost (in US dollars) of a c4.large instance in each region to compare. I picked c4.large since it's a nice starter instance for "webish" workloads. $0.10 - US East (N. Virginia) [us-east-1] $0.10 - US East (Ohio) [us-east-2] $0.124 - US West (N. Cal…

Are there regions that don't support EC2?

I think his goal was to advertise his company, not impart knowledge.

Re: AWS London Region (eu-west-2) now available

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Post by softawre »

vacri wrote: post #12
peteretep wrote: post #2

Is there any obvious reason why the services currently available are so limited as compared to eu-west-1? Would we expect it just to grow with time?

Yes, this is the way regions develop. The grandpappy with everything is us-east-1 (well, historically anyway, which is why it also gets all the outages...), and the services slowly migrate out to other regions from there. You'll see new regions start to pile on services as time goes on. Often they'll just pop into existence quietly. Our Sydney setup only had two AZs, and a few months ago, I noticed a third one. No id…

Huh. Same with us, got bit by only 2 AZs in Sydney.

By chance did your company just get acquired? :)

Re: AWS London Region (eu-west-2) now available

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Post by querulous »

vacri wrote: post #12
peteretep wrote: post #2

Is there any obvious reason why the services currently available are so limited as compared to eu-west-1? Would we expect it just to grow with time?

Yes, this is the way regions develop. The grandpappy with everything is us-east-1 (well, historically anyway, which is why it also gets all the outages...), and the services slowly migrate out to other regions from there. You'll see new regions start to pile on services as time goes on. Often they'll just pop into existence quietly. Our Sydney setup only had two AZs, and a few months ago, I noticed a third one. No id…

us-west-2 is usually the first region to get new services, i assume they use it for beta testing

Re: AWS London Region (eu-west-2) now available

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Post by Johnny555 »

OJFord wrote: post #14

That product x region matrix... How many products is 'enough' for Amazon, before they begin to consolidate? I can't be alone in thinking the vast range is off-putting, not to mention the more range there is the more AWS-specific it is, making it simultaneously harder and more important to figure out the right choice...

Can't you just pick the product that does what you want? If you need a WAF, use their WAF, if you just need a load balancer, then use an ELB. If you need a data warehouse, use Redshift, if you just need to make simple queries against data stored in S3, use Athena.

Having a wide range of products at a variety of price points and capabilities sounds better than a "one size fits most" approach.

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