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Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region

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Re: Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region

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Anyone know what part of the state the datacenters are located in? Or are they just all over the place? EDIT: Apparently the facilities are in a couple townships around Columbus (which is in the dead center of the state). Neat. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2015/05/29/...

For map nerds! 40.103706, -83.199873 in Dublin 40.061121, -83.134998 (originally rumored to be at a different, nearby site at 40.053217, -83.127493) in Hilliard 40.094640, -82.751469 in New Albany

Ooh, you're good at this. Where are the rest of them? I like to keep my DC map accurate, but AWS is hard to find.

Re: Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region

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I really wish there was an API that allowed me to just get a list of all available regions including their descriptive names. As it stands, when AWS adds a region I have to make manual updates to update my systems. AWS has APIs for everything else, why not a comprehensive API for regions and their descriptive names? EDIT: for the downvoters - please specify exactly the REST API call that I make to get regions and the…

I'd be happy to serve this as a read only endpoint if you'd like.

can i have write access too?
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