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An AWS Region is coming to France

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Re: An AWS Region is coming to France

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Post by rloc »

This is great. I operate a French website targeted to French customers, this will improve latency compared to Ireland.

This might also allow for mixing critical server roles hosted in other Paris data centers with AWS.

I'm thinking about connecting a web server (in AWS) with a DB server (in another Paris DC) while keeping the latency at a low level.

Re: An AWS Region is coming to France

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Post by 5h »

Still no further info on the London region since their announcement post[1] said:

> Today, I am excited to add the United Kingdom to that list! The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union (EU), and we're shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017). This region will provide even lower latency and strong data sovereignty to local users.

[1] http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2015/11/aws-announces-uk...

Re: An AWS Region is coming to France

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Post by dazbradbury »

For those in London wondering where is best for UK based customers, it seems, for London at least, this could be an improvement over Dublin (where Frankfurt is slower), as Paris is roughly 70 miles closer. Of course, depending on where / when [1] a UK-based data centre is released, I'd imagine that would be faster still.

Currently Ireland vs. Frankfurt is (more data needed of course)[2]:

  Europe (Ireland): 25 ms   27 ms   24 ms
  Europe (Frankfurt): 39 ms   39 ms   42 ms
And Frankfurt is about 100 miles further than Dublin.

But for a quick test, this looks like a good tool: http://www.cloudping.info/

Will be interested to test this once released to see UK / Paris vs. Dublin.

[1] Article states UK region "due in coming months". No location announced?

[2] Hitting ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com vs. ec2.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com.

Re: An AWS Region is coming to France

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Post by grif-fin »

I do sincerely wished Amazon would have consider changing their AWS service management UI and workflow as well as epanding their servers around the globe.

Currently it is an incredibly inefficient design of a service management trying to do everything yet many are dependent for using it.

Re: An AWS Region is coming to France

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Post by dazc »

5h wrote: post #4

Still no further info on the London region since their announcement post[1] said: > Today, I am excited to add the United Kingdom to that list! The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union (EU), and we're shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017). This region will provide even lower latency and strong data sovereignty to local users. [1] http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2015/11/aws-…

Since UK is about to be outside of the EU it's likely this has been put on hold? I don't know what the facts are but I'm guessing the UK accounts for a large slice of data currently being routed via Ireland, so it isn't going to be on hold for long?

Re: An AWS Region is coming to France

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Post by wastedhours »

dazc wrote: post #7
5h wrote: post #4

Still no further info on the London region since their announcement post[1] said: > Today, I am excited to add the United Kingdom to that list! The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union (EU), and we're shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017). This region will provide even lower latency and strong data sovereignty to local users. [1] http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2015/11/aws-…

Since UK is about to be outside of the EU it's likely this has been put on hold? I don't know what the facts are but I'm guessing the UK accounts for a large slice of data currently being routed via Ireland, so it isn't going to be on hold for long?

I know you can target Ireland as the API endpoint for SES, but in light of Brexit and all the issues still with Safe Harbour, hopefully having a UK offering will make me a lot happier with routing email sends (data wise).

Re: An AWS Region is coming to France

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Post by widforss »

What is the state of the temporary spy laws in France?

Shouldn't it at least be mentioned in the announcement that the french government can pretty much ask Amazon for any of your data without a warrant. Or is the situation better than a year ago?

EDIT: Warrant is apparently needed as noplay said.

Re: An AWS Region is coming to France

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Post by timv »

dazbradbury wrote: post #5

For those in London wondering where is best for UK based customers, it seems, for London at least, this could be an improvement over Dublin (where Frankfurt is slower), as Paris is roughly 70 miles closer. Of course, depending on where / when [1] a UK-based data centre is released, I'd imagine that would be faster still. Currently Ireland vs. Frankfurt is (more data needed of course)[2]: Europe (Ireland): 25 ms 27 ms…

> Article states UK region "due in coming months". No location announced?

At the bottom of the English section it says it's London

The new European region, coupled with the existing AWS Regions in Dublin and Frankfurt, and a future one in London,

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