I've released a FreeBSD 8.2 AMI in the new region now. Maybe next time Amazon launches a new region they'll give me advance access so I can have FreeBSD AMI(s) available without any delay.
Now Open: AWS Region in Tokyo
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Re: Now Open: AWS Region in Tokyo
#12Anyone know a shortcut to get Amazon to respond an instance limit increase? We were assigned a "sales guy" but he has gone awol, and his voice mailbox is full. Filling out the form on their website does nothing. We have been trying for weeks.
I find that they're surprisingly responsive when you post something to the forums on aws.amazon.com. Try posting there and I bet you'll have somebody from Amazon requesting they PM you within a couple hours.
Re: Now Open: AWS Region in Tokyo
#13I wonder if Japanese developers are happy with the prices. Looks like they are the highest of all regions so far. (I'm interested in Spot Instances specifically)
Re: Now Open: AWS Region in Tokyo
#14I wonder if Japanese developers are happy with the prices. Looks like they are the highest of all regions so far. (I'm interested in Spot Instances specifically)
Tokyo is a very overcrowded place, I suspect data center costs are high due to this.
Re: Now Open: AWS Region in Tokyo
#15My girlfriend came in a couple hours ago, and shook me awake as I tried to hit the snooze button again. "Hey," she said. "I think you'll want to look at the interweb tubes before work today."
"I already know about the stupid naziPad 2," I groaned. "Why would I need cameras on something I only use in the bathroom?"
"AWS Tokyo is live," she said, whereupon I pretty much vaulted over her as I leapt out of bed and turned on my phone and saw the announcement in my inbox.
This is really big news for us here. Even though the costs are indeed the highest of any AWS region, that was to be expected--physical data center costs here are the highest I have ever heard of, too. We've so far been able to play around with APAC/Singapore, and see what might one day be possible, but the latency and variabilty of the international link were too much for the 'real' stuff. Can't wait to start hooking this up today.
P.S. I for one am very happy with the pricing. It seems to be just as good a deal, relative to running your own infrastructure, as AWS is in other regions.
Re: Now Open: AWS Region in Tokyo
#16I wonder if Japanese developers are happy with the prices. Looks like they are the highest of all regions so far. (I'm interested in Spot Instances specifically)
Datacenter pricing here is massively higher than California, or any other place that I've lived.
Re: Now Open: AWS Region in Tokyo
#17I wonder if Japanese developers are happy with the prices. Looks like they are the highest of all regions so far. (I'm interested in Spot Instances specifically)
Tokyo is a very overcrowded place, I suspect data center costs are high due to this.
Hrm. They specifically declined to state the exact location of the data center. Amazon's Tokyo physical products warehouse is way out in the middle of nowhere (near/in Funabashi) so assuming they built their own data center, real estate alone may not be the source of the cost delta. It could just be that they priced themselves to compete reasonably with their local "alternatives" (despite the apples/oranges quality of any such comparison).