Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region • Hacker News Board

The US is not a region. US East (Northern Virginia) is one region, and US East (Ohio) is another region. There are also other US regions, like US West (Oregon) and US West (Northern California).

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

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Post by hayleox » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 9:16 PM UTC

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/...

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

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Post by jsingleton » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 9:21 PM UTC

I wondered how soon "Coming soon" would be. Now I have to update my recent blog post [0] before the final two parts are even out :) - part two is out tomorrow BTW.

There seems to be a bit of an arms race with Azure right now. The current map [1] has four more regions "Coming soon". Looking forward to London.

[0]: https://unop.uk/on-aws-vs-azure-vendor-lock-in-and-pricing-c...

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

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

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Post by niftich » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 9:36 PM UTC

hayleox wrote: post #5

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

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

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Post by jd007 » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 9:41 PM UTC

I wonder how far off the Canadian region is, which they teased in Jan to be coming this year.

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

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Post by wmf » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 9:54 PM UTC

dirtae wrote: post #4

vinny2020 wrote: post #2

So Ohio is a new center but still in the US Region?

The US is not a region. US East (Northern Virginia) is one region, and US East (Ohio) is another region. There are also other US regions, like US West (Oregon) and US West (Northern California).

If there's confusion about the concept of regions, it seems to be coming from Amazon themselves. They couldn't just call it the Ohio region?

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

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Post by bdcravens » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 10:10 PM UTC

wmf wrote: post #9

dirtae wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The US is not a region. US East (Northern Virginia) is one region, and US East (Ohio) is another region. There are also other US regions, like US West (Oregon) and US West (Northern California).

If there's confusion about the concept of regions, it seems to be coming from Amazon themselves. They couldn't just call it the Ohio region?

Is that really an issue? Sometimes I get the number suffixes confused (like us-west-1 and us-west-2). Additionally, would you refer to the Sydney region or the New South Wales region?