
Now Open: AWS Region in Tokyo - jeffbarr
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/03/now-open-aws-region-in-tokyo.html
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cperciva
I've released a FreeBSD 8.2 AMI in the new region now. Maybe next time Amazon
launches a new region they'll give me advance access so I can have FreeBSD
AMI(s) available without any delay.

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veidr
My girlfriend came in a couple hours ago, and shook me awake as I tried to hit
the snooze button again. "Hey," she said. "I think you'll want to look at the
interweb tubes before work today."

"I already know about the stupid naziPad 2," I groaned. "Why would I need
cameras on something I only use in the bathroom?"

"AWS Tokyo is live," she said, whereupon I pretty much vaulted over her as I
leapt out of bed and turned on my phone and saw the announcement in my inbox.

This is really big news for us here. Even though the costs are indeed the
highest of any AWS region, that was to be expected--physical data center costs
here are the highest I have ever heard of, too. We've so far been able to play
around with APAC/Singapore, and see what might one day be possible, but the
latency and variabilty of the international link were too much for the 'real'
stuff. Can't wait to start hooking this up today.

P.S. I for one am very happy with the pricing. It seems to be just as good a
deal, relative to running your own infrastructure, as AWS is in other regions.

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Smrchy
This is great news indeed.

Can anyone from Amazon say something about plans and/or an ETA for a South
American region for all those people in Brazil, Argentina, Chile etc.?

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jeffbarr
I can't say anything other than that we listen to our customers and that we
study usage patterns to drive decisions of this type. Feel free to PM or email
me if you have any special needs.

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ericb
Anyone know a shortcut to get Amazon to respond an instance limit increase? We
were assigned a "sales guy" but he has gone awol, and his voice mailbox is
full. Filling out the form on their website does nothing. We have been trying
for weeks.

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ericb
Well, commenting on the blog post got me a quick response from the moderator
and a promise to forward it over, so that's something.

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jeffbarr
That was me!

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ericb
Thank-you again. Gotta love Hacker News--never know who you'll find on here!

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prakash
Here's a comparison of various EC2 regions & other providers in the US:
[http://cedexis.com/data/charts.html?country=223&provider...](http://cedexis.com/data/charts.html?country=223&providerType=1&chartType=all)

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listic
I wonder if Japanese developers are happy with the prices. Looks like they are
the highest of all regions so far. (I'm interested in Spot Instances
specifically)

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AdamGibbins
Tokyo is a very overcrowded place, I suspect data center costs are high due to
this.

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delackner
Hrm. They specifically declined to state the exact location of the data
center. Amazon's Tokyo _physical products_ warehouse is way out in the middle
of nowhere (near/in Funabashi) so assuming they built their own data center,
real estate alone may not be the source of the cost delta. It could just be
that they priced themselves to compete reasonably with their local
"alternatives" (despite the apples/oranges quality of any such comparison).

