On: Global average response times from EC2 regions

[mixmastamyk]

Enlightening, thanks. A shame that none of the big names have a data center in South America. I've a project I'd like to bring to Brazil at some point and 300-500ms is not very good. What will it take to open up a node in Sao Paulo or Buenos Aires? Is it lack of traffic or taxes holding up progress?

[rkalla → mixmastamyk]

mix, EC2 just opened a Sao Paulo EC2 data center this week or last week, so you are good to go.

$0.25/GB though so it is a bit pricey.

[shykes → rkalla]

Unless I'm mistaken, there is now a Cloudfront edge in Sao Paulo, but no EC2 region. This may or may not be appropriate for your project.

[rkalla → shykes]

Damn, shykes you are exactly right it was just an edge location and Route53 node, not an EC2 region.

Sorry about that guys.