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Is there any obvious reason why the services currently available are so limited as compared to eu-west-1? Would we expect it just to grow with time?

atonse 10y ago
My guess is that Trump winning has accelerated the moving of a lot of data off US property.
- SteveNuts 10y ago
  Wow I had no idea it only takes 1 month to plan and build a a brand new datacenter! In all seriousness, no. There's no way in hell Amazon would rush something like this just because of the election results. The risk is too high compared to the (probably very little) reward.
  - atonse 10y ago
    Oops I didn't mean to imply they built it from scratch in the last month. I wasn't clear. I meant they may have rushed the final steps a few months. Not possible?
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toomuchtodo 10y ago
I'd expect there's an MVP of services AWS stands up in new regions, and then expands out from there as the underlying primitives shake out (this doesn't apply to GovCloud though).
vacri 10y ago
Yes, this is the way regions develop. The grandpappy with everything is us-east-1 (well, historically anyway, which is why it also gets all the outages...), and the services slowly migrate out to other regions from there. You'll see new regions start to pile on services as time goes on. Often they'll just pop into existence quietly. Our Sydney setup only had two AZs, and a few months ago, I noticed a third one. No idea when that came to life, but it would have been useful a year before :)
- softawre 10y ago
  Huh. Same with us, got bit by only 2 AZs in Sydney. By chance did your company just get acquired? :)
  - vacri 10y ago
    Nope. No business-side changes for a year or so...
- querulous 10y ago
  us-west-2 is usually the first region to get new services, i assume they use it for beta testing
  - vacri 10y ago
    Hrm, fair enough. I thought it was us-east-1, though it seems that recently they're going in a few locations. But definitely, new services appear in the more mature regions first, and then gradually filter out to the others.

atonse 10y ago

My guess is that Trump winning has accelerated the moving of a lot of data off US property.

SteveNuts 10y ago
Wow I had no idea it only takes 1 month to plan and build a a brand new datacenter! In all seriousness, no. There's no way in hell Amazon would rush something like this just because of the election results. The risk is too high compared to the (probably very little) reward.
- atonse 10y ago
  Oops I didn't mean to imply they built it from scratch in the last month. I wasn't clear. I meant they may have rushed the final steps a few months. Not possible?
- deleted 10y ago
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toomuchtodo 10y ago

I'd expect there's an MVP of services AWS stands up in new regions, and then expands out from there as the underlying primitives shake out (this doesn't apply to GovCloud though).

vacri 10y ago

Yes, this is the way regions develop. The grandpappy with everything is us-east-1 (well, historically anyway, which is why it also gets all the outages...), and the services slowly migrate out to other regions from there. You'll see new regions start to pile on services as time goes on. Often they'll just pop into existence quietly. Our Sydney setup only had two AZs, and a few months ago, I noticed a third one. No idea when that came to life, but it would have been useful a year before :)

softawre 10y ago
Huh. Same with us, got bit by only 2 AZs in Sydney. By chance did your company just get acquired? :)
- vacri 10y ago
  Nope. No business-side changes for a year or so...
querulous 10y ago
us-west-2 is usually the first region to get new services, i assume they use it for beta testing
- vacri 10y ago
  Hrm, fair enough. I thought it was us-east-1, though it seems that recently they're going in a few locations. But definitely, new services appear in the more mature regions first, and then gradually filter out to the others.