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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

• AdamGibbins 16y ago
  Tokyo is a very overcrowded place, I suspect data center costs are high due to this.
  • delackner 16y ago
    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).
• donw 16y ago
  Datacenter pricing here is massively higher than California, or any other place that I've lived.