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> since most things Internet are US-based What is meant by this?
by nur0n 8y ago
> since most things Internet are US-based
What is meant by this?
- awad 8y agoFrom a practical standpoint, most users in the US are accessing US-shored services.
- disordinary 8y agoYep, there's no aws Russian region but plenty in the US.
- konart 8y agoThough they now have new Russia focused jobs: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/search?offset=0&result_limit=10&sort=relevant&distanceType=Mi&radius=24km&latitude=&longitude=&loc_group_id=&loc_query=&base_query=russia&city=&country=®ion=&county=&query_options=& https://www.amazon.jobs/en/search?offset=0&result_limit=10&s... Maybe this is not a coincidence.
- disordinary 8y agoThey obviously have sales there and probably cloud front infrastructure too. Maybe a az in the future, only they know.
- Retric 8y agoRussia has less than 1/12th the US’s GDP. They simply have less demand for this stuff.
- disordinary 8y agoThat's not really relevant to the point though. Also how about the gdp of Ireland or Brazil or Bahrain or South Africa or Singapore or Australia? GDP doesn't have much to do with it.
- Retric 8y agoAmazon cares a little about physical location and a lot about network bandwidth for this stuff. So, they are building a location in South Africa that will cover southern Africa, but their locations in Brazil and Europe actually have good coverage for Africa already and only recently has the demand approached the point to be worth the investment. The reason for the is under sea Cables provided most of Africa’s backhaul capacity, which relates a little or geography and a lot of economic development.
- disordinary 8y agoSo your point about gdp isn't relevant?
- Retric 8y ago“Demand” and physical infrastructure have a lot to do with GDP. By Demand I mean the price quality curve people / companies are willing to pay. Russia has 1/12 US GDP spread over a huge area. They have fairly good network capacity but simply don’t pay for that many servers. Tiny counties with good networks may randomly be chosen, but the odds are low. Where both US and China have the demand to support multiple AWS zones,
- rchakra3 8y agoThey probably mean that a large percentage of internet services are hosted on US-based servers. As a regular AWS/Azure customer, the regions in which I tend to see provisioning issues makes this seem right, though I'd love to see some numbers.
- Retric 8y agoFor various reasons the internet maps much closer to GDP than Population. But, largely it’s a case of smaller economies driving less advertising dollars which supports fewer websites. So it’s also weighted more to consumer spending than raw GDP.