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thanks for sharing, I never thought this could be an issue Question: Does this increase in latency make cloud services less interesting for companies which are

thanks for sharing, I never thought this could be an issue Question: Does this increase in latency make cloud services less interesting for companies which are not in US? What kind of cloud services will be especially affected

dijit 4y ago
Cloud services usually have global availability, you choose where you host. A lot of people in Europe are using European datacenters. That is not to say there's no issues: The consoles can be unbearably slow at times. (Google Cloud being probably the worst offender in my experience, despite being a fan otherwise). Amazon supports consoles in other regions, but if you use `console.aws.amazon.com` then it is us-east; it doesn't automatically change it for you. Here's the list: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/mgmt-console.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/mgmt-console.h... Regarding making Cloud less interesting: Europe basically follows whatever SV is doing, to make a crass comment: an article could be produced from SV saying eating poop would make better engineering and European "tech" companies would assuredly start buying up the sewage systems. Even when it doesn't make sense; we seem to follow.
- capableweb 4y ago
  After using AWS for more than 10 years in various capacities, I've never seen that the console is available in multiple regions! Sometimes it is dog slow for me when I'm in a various different geographic locations, I hope this newly learned fact will make my experience slightly better in the future, thanks for sharing that! It does make me wonder though, why not automatically redirect people to the console that is closest to them? They could done anything from Anycast DNS to showing a simple little notification showing people there was an alternative possibly closer to them when logging in, but as far as I know, nothing is done about this.
  - everfrustrated 4y ago
    GP is a little confused. The AWS console always redirects you to the the console hosted in the same region as the resources you're viewing. But the initial login request to AWS goes via us-east-1 by default. AWS has more recently published the list of login endpoints to use should us-east-1 be offline.

dijit 4y ago

Cloud services usually have global availability, you choose where you host. A lot of people in Europe are using European datacenters. That is not to say there's no issues: The consoles can be unbearably slow at times. (Google Cloud being probably the worst offender in my experience, despite being a fan otherwise). Amazon supports consoles in other regions, but if you use `console.aws.amazon.com` then it is us-east; it doesn't automatically change it for you. Here's the list: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/mgmt-console.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/mgmt-console.h... Regarding making Cloud less interesting: Europe basically follows whatever SV is doing, to make a crass comment: an article could be produced from SV saying eating poop would make better engineering and European "tech" companies would assuredly start buying up the sewage systems. Even when it doesn't make sense; we seem to follow.

capableweb 4y ago
After using AWS for more than 10 years in various capacities, I've never seen that the console is available in multiple regions! Sometimes it is dog slow for me when I'm in a various different geographic locations, I hope this newly learned fact will make my experience slightly better in the future, thanks for sharing that! It does make me wonder though, why not automatically redirect people to the console that is closest to them? They could done anything from Anycast DNS to showing a simple little notification showing people there was an alternative possibly closer to them when logging in, but as far as I know, nothing is done about this.
- everfrustrated 4y ago
  GP is a little confused. The AWS console always redirects you to the the console hosted in the same region as the resources you're viewing. But the initial login request to AWS goes via us-east-1 by default. AWS has more recently published the list of login endpoints to use should us-east-1 be offline.