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us-west-2 is the same price as us-east-1. Price is no excuse anymore.
by danryan 14y ago
us-west-2 is the same price as us-east-1. Price is no excuse anymore.
- rdl 14y agoLatency to Europe kind of is, if you want to be in a single site with acceptable ping times to Europe, US East, and US West. But I'd rather just solve replication and be in each.
- lucian1900 14y agoIf latency to Europe is an issue, why not just have a few machines in their Ireland datacenter?
- rdl 14y agoBecause distributing sites across multiple regions is hard -- high latency between your front end and database sucks, and replicating a database over high latency is also hard. If you can do it, great, but if you can't, then pick the best single region. US East or US West plus Direct Connect to your own colo space, with AWS for the burst capacity, and your own redundancy for the database servers, might be the best plan if you can't do wide area "over the Internet" database replication. (I might get an extra 10G DC (since I need 1G DC myself) and then have some colo for sale with it in US East/US West later this year.)