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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 softawre »

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?

They all support ec2 (as per the linked article).

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

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Post by Slippery_John »

nindalf wrote: post #11
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 da…

New regions seem to be announced well ahead of time [0] though I'm not sure how far in advance. I think I recall seeing the London region months ago.

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/

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

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Post by hug »

Johnny555 wrote: post #20
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.

There are reasons to be alarmed at the "throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks" approach.

Like perhaps you decide to use a product that they're not particularly interested in supporting very well, and a year later they decide to shutter the service which performs a crucial role in your environment...

I am not suggesting that Amazon is actually going to do this, but it's certainly more likely than, say, EC2 going away.

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

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Post by vacri »

softawre wrote: post #17
vacri wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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? :)

Nope. No business-side changes for a year or so...

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

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Post by vacri »

querulous wrote: post #18
vacri wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Hrm, fair enough. I thought it was us-east-1, though it seems that recently they're going in a few locations. But definitely, new services appear in the more mature regions first, and then gradually filter out to the others.

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

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Post by unkoman »

hug wrote: post #24
Johnny555 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There are reasons to be alarmed at the "throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks" approach. Like perhaps you decide to use a product that they're not particularly interested in supporting very well, and a year later they decide to shutter the service which performs a crucial role in your environment... I am not suggesting that Amazon is actually going to do this, but it's certainly more likely than, say, EC2 going…

AWS has sunset features before (SimpleDB for example) but only for new customers. Old customers that use the EOL features 1. get a migration path 2. keep the features in their account.

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

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Post by alexbilbie »

hug wrote: post #24
Johnny555 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There are reasons to be alarmed at the "throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks" approach. Like perhaps you decide to use a product that they're not particularly interested in supporting very well, and a year later they decide to shutter the service which performs a crucial role in your environment... I am not suggesting that Amazon is actually going to do this, but it's certainly more likely than, say, EC2 going…

Aside from SimpleDB which was replaced by DynamoDB and Elasticache I'm not aware of any withdrawn services in AWS' history
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