[j-kidd]

Outside of US and EU, it is quite difficult to find a reputable and affordable dedicated hosting provider. We use AWS extensively in ap-southeast-1, and their new C3 Compute Optimized instances are actually very competitive in price-performance ratio. Previously, we mostly used C1 instances, which were just okay. I never like the M1 / M3 instances.

Besides, in this region with messy peering agreement, AWS network also has the lowest ping time and the fewest hops.

[waps]

So inside of EU/US you do use dedicated server providers ?

AWS is effectively (almost) a transit-only network. That has pros and cons. On the plus side, it should have decent connectivity anywhere. On the minus side, if (almost) any link at all on a network is congested, that will almost certainly congest AWS traffic too. They're relatively unlikely to have long-running issues. Also : they're REALLY expensive.