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

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.

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

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Post by mappu » Wed, Dec 14, 2016, 4:31 AM UTC

Following the new AWS Canada region a week earlier.

An application i maintain at $DAYJOB has a drop-down selection for AWS region and i have periodically updated the list of possible values. Is it idiomatic for end-user software to manually enter the endpoint?

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

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Post by atonse » Wed, Dec 14, 2016, 4:33 AM UTC

peteretep wrote: post #2

Is there any obvious reason why the services currently available are so limited as compared to eu-west-1? Would we expect it just to grow with time?

My guess is that Trump winning has accelerated the moving of a lot of data off US property.

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

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Post by toomuchtodo » Wed, Dec 14, 2016, 4:39 AM UTC

mappu wrote: post #5

Following the new AWS Canada region a week earlier. An application i maintain at $DAYJOB has a drop-down selection for AWS region and i have periodically updated the list of possible values. Is it idiomatic for end-user software to manually enter the endpoint?

Boto [1] releases updates when new regions are available, but if you were so inclined, you could poll for a list of regions as well:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_De...

[1] https://github.com/boto/boto/commit/2b405c0740a52101d85fb17d...

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

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Post by toomuchtodo » Wed, Dec 14, 2016, 4:42 AM UTC

peteretep wrote: post #2

Is there any obvious reason why the services currently available are so limited as compared to eu-west-1? Would we expect it just to grow with time?

I'd expect there's an MVP of services AWS stands up in new regions, and then expands out from there as the underlying primitives shake out (this doesn't apply to GovCloud though).

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

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Post by JimmyAustin » Wed, Dec 14, 2016, 4:43 AM UTC

mappu wrote: post #5

Following the new AWS Canada region a week earlier. An application i maintain at $DAYJOB has a drop-down selection for AWS region and i have periodically updated the list of possible values. Is it idiomatic for end-user software to manually enter the endpoint?

Probably depends on how technically adept your users are. You are probably going to want to validate the inputs anyway.

Thought about just hooking it up to the API?

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_De...

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

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Post by SteveNuts » Wed, Dec 14, 2016, 4:43 AM UTC

atonse wrote: post #6

peteretep wrote: post #2

Is there any obvious reason why the services currently available are so limited as compared to eu-west-1? Would we expect it just to grow with time?

My guess is that Trump winning has accelerated the moving of a lot of data off US property.

Wow I had no idea it only takes 1 month to plan and build a a brand new datacenter!

In all seriousness, no. There's no way in hell Amazon would rush something like this just because of the election results. The risk is too high compared to the (probably very little) reward.