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 int

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.