I've found latency in the UK can be about a third lower than Ireland. I used Bytemark for testing in my recent book but Azure have UK regions now [0] and DO hav

I've found latency in the UK can be about a third lower than Ireland. I used Bytemark for testing in my recent book but Azure have UK regions now [0] and DO have had a London DC for a couple of years [1]. AWS UK is currently just "coming soon" [2] but Werner has said "end of 2016 (or early 2017)" [3]. [0] https://unop.uk/azure-eu-regions-naming-confusion https://unop.uk/azure-eu-regions-naming-confusion [1] https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/introducing-our-london-region https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/introducing-our-lo... [2] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure [3] http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2015/11/aws-announces-uk-region.html http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2015/11/aws-announces-uk...