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I meant AWS opening up in Australia would create severe problems for a lot of local high-cost hosting providers. But Amazon may not bother as US west coast lat
by jbarham 15y ago
I meant AWS opening up in Australia would create severe problems for a lot of local high-cost hosting providers. But Amazon may not bother as US west coast latency is often good enough. (Keep in mind that Australian ISPs might route traffic to Singapore via the US, so although it may be closer as the crow flies, it's not necessarily closer on the internet.)
- dam0 15y agoAWS in Aussie in 2012 apparently : http://www.zdnet.com.au/amazon-planning-aussie-datacentre-report-339318358.htm http://www.zdnet.com.au/amazon-planning-aussie-datacentre-re...
- jacques_chester 15y agoI would love to be wrong.
- jacques_chester 15y agoThere's a pipe to Singapore out of Darwin, I believe. One of the old OTC lines I'm guessing, so probably not very high bandwidth.
- nl 15y agoIt's not just the bandwidth - it's the cost. Bandwidth to the US is cheaper, and some ISP (TGP cough) route based on price rather than latency. I'd dig up the link from the Amazon forums, but I've got a feeling we've had this discussion on here before?