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

[OJFord]

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...

[Johnny555]

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.

[peteretep]

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?

[vacri]

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 idea when that came to life, but it would have been useful a year before :)

[toomuchtodo]

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).

[atonse]

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

[raidan]

Looks like they have just officially announced it on their blog.[0]

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-london-region/

[mappu]

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?

[JimmyAustin]

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...

[toomuchtodo]

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...

[dx034]

Any idea where the datacentres are? I know that amazon doesn't disclose it, but should be noticable to have 2-3 new huge data centres? Would guess 1 AZ in Slough and the other one in the docklands (if they have 2AZs)?

[jonatron]

They appear to have 2x100G links at LINX to Slough Equinix, so I'd guess they have at least 1 AZ in Slough space leased from Equinix. I hope they know that Slough isn't in London.

[andrioni]

AFAIK AWS doesn't fully build and manage their own datacenters, they usually just lease a bunch of space in an existing one that's good enough.

[Bino]

It's nice AWS focuses more in the EU. But how does AWS align with EU data protection laws now and in near future (in the regards of being a American company operating in the EU).

[spamlord]

Responsibility is on the AWS customer to abide by data sovereignty laws that may apply to them.

[LeicaLatte]

Is this backdoor-ready to comply with UK's recent tech laws?

[djhworld]

Shame to see Lambda isn't supported yet, guess it will come soon.

[atonse]

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.

[nindalf]

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 data residency requirements, which was clear last year.

[nodesocket]

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. California) [us-west-1]
  $0.10 - US West (Oregon) [us-west-2]
  $0.11 - Canada (Central) [ca-central-1]
  $0.11 - Asia Pacific (Mumbai) [ap-south-1]
  $0.114 - Asia Pacific (Seoul) [ap-northeast-2]
  $0.115 - Asia Pacific (Singapore) [ap-southeast-1]
  $0.13 - Asia Pacific (Sydney) [ap-southeast-2]
  $0.126 - Asia Pacific (Tokyo) [ap-northeast-1]
  $0.114 - EU (Frankfurt) [eu-central-1]
  $0.113 - EU (Ireland) [eu-west-1]
  $0.119 - EU (London) [eu-west-2]
  $0.155 - South America (Sao Paulo) [sa-east-1]

[smegel]

Are there regions that don't support EC2?