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New AWS Region in Sao Paulo, Brazil
- ricardobeat 15y agoSão Paulo, it's there on the page you linked to. If it were spanish it would be san paolo. On a more relevant note, finally. Google has had servers around here for a few years, along with most large CDNs. Cloudflare should take note, it's nearly unusable in Brazil right now.
- brianbreslin 15y agothis could be useful for people targeting LatAm services. lower latency could make up a bit for slower connections throughout the region
- paperwork 15y agoI was lucky to be in Sao Paulo for a few weeks, setting up some trading systems. I think people generally underestimate Brazil's potential. Locals apparently joke that Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be. Lucky for them, the future has arrived. The enthusiasm of the locals (at least the elite) is infectious. I heard a funny (and somewhat racist) comment there from someone who was explaining why Brazil is far more interesting than China or India: 'Brazil is basically a Western country. Would you rather go to China and eat frogs or go to India and eat spices so hot that they make you sweat?
- ricardobeat 15y agoNetflix, Rd.io, Senzari and iTunes Store have launched locally in just the past 2 months. Next year I think we'll watch a few good fights on the consumer apps and SaaS spaces. Internet usage will hit the 100m mark.
- jl6 15y agoBrazil is on fire. Flush with oil money, 90% of electricity from renewable sources, a bottomless pit of energy and enthusiasm being held back only by corruption.
- gldalmaso 15y agoHere in Brazil, unfortunately, there is a sort of self-diminishing atittude where most people will always consider the country as an underdog. Even though there was visible growth in recent years, people continue saying stuff like that.
- panarky 15y agoWhy are EC2 and S3 in São Paulo 36% more expensive than US-East? http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ EBS volumes are 90% more expensive, and data transfer is 200% higher. Much higher than US, EU, Asia Pacific. Are costs in South America that much more than the rest of the world?
- bdonlan 15y agoPresumably power and/or network connectivity are more expensive, and they have to pass on the prices. Also, given the high cost of disks these days, it's not surprising EBS prices would be high in a newly opened region...
- smokinn 15y agoI imagine there's a large number of reasons. Of the top of my head: Supplier costs Volume discounts smaller (until they scale up more at least) Infrastructure partners more limited and costly etc, etc
- brianbreslin 15y agoReal estate there is insanely expensive. Bandwidth is also likely pricier too. So datacenters will cost more.
- postit 15y agoTaxes, we have this service tax billed in são paulo that increases the price.
- jl6 15y agoBrazil has a 60% import tax. Not sure if this applies to everything but it does to individuals and small businesses.
- kawera 15y agoIt only applies to individuals or business that choose to use a simplified import procedure. Large imports pay between 0% and 18% on most goods; IT hardware import taxes tops at 12%.
- jbyers 15y agoWhen AWS brings GeoDNS to Route53 and ELB, it's going to be a lot of fun to play in all these datacenters. I can't wait.
- prakash 15y agodon't wait. You can use Cedexis to do geo/cost/more with multiple aws regions/ availability zones: http://www.cedexis.com/products/cedexis-openmix/ http://www.cedexis.com/products/cedexis-openmix/
- foobarbazetc 15y agoHow much is Cedexis?
- jbarham 15y agoHopefully that means they'll be opening a data center in Australia before too long. EDIT: To expand on where I'm coming from, I'm the technical lead at a web agency in Melbourne so I make recommendations on what hosting providers we use, both for our staging servers and live servers for our customers' sites. We already have a few staging and live servers with AWS in California, but for most live servers we have to use Australian hosting providers for lower latency and (sometimes) for legal reasons regarding storage of customer data. I guarantee that if AWS were to open a facility in Australia, all of our hosting would move to that facility ASAP.
- jbyers 15y agoI hope so too. Bandwidth and hosting prices are outrageous. VPS rates are terrible too, though some vendors seem to have gotten the message in the last year or so.
- josephb 15y agoAre you saying that bandwidth prices that you pay in the market aren't reflective of the actual costs to the provider?
- jcampbell1 15y agoAmazon doesn't even have cloudfront service there. It is pitiful. The convicts and kiwis are 10% of my business; I wish they got better service.
- rdl 15y agoFully fund Pacific Fibre (a non-consortium, private fiber link to AU/NZ/SG/US) at 512 Tbps, and then bandwidth should get a whole lot cheaper.
- josephb 15y agoThey will only light it up as it's purchased, which leads to supply / demand / pricing. The cost of lighting it up front is prohibitive and pointless to some degree as it depends on what the cables customers will need. That being said, another cable system may help the cost of connectivity into AU. It's been on the downward spiral for many years.
- swah 15y agoThis is great. Still missing Amazon.com, the store... (quite difficult).
- swah 15y agoI think I'll finally stop using my Linode in Dallas (170ms delay): Pinging ec2-177-71-152-69.sa-east-1.compute.amazonaws.com [177.71.152.69] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 177.71.152.69: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=43
- slig 15y agoI'm on linode and I host things targeted to people here in Brazil. I don't think I'll move anytime soon. What I'm considering is hosting only the CSS on CloudFront and keep the rest on linode.
- swah 15y agoIt seems servers like "us-west-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com" are only acessible from that area. But "sa-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com" is an alias for "us-west-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com", so I can't ping it.
- vierja 15y agoTry pinging "sdb.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com". I am located in Uruguay and got an average of 100ms, compared to around 300ms for other regions.
- orcadk 15y agoIt worries me slightly the way AWS adds new regions with wildly fluctuating prices. We currently serve a decent amount of traffic in the US, over CloudFront. We also have some clients in South America, currently being served by the US pops. While speed isn't great, it's decent enough for what we're doing (simple jpg serving). With AWS opening up a new pop in South America, all of a sudden, whatever traffic we have to South America is doubled in price, from one day to the other. While we don't serve enough SA traffic for that to be an issue for us, I can certainly see it becoming an issue. As a customer I'd like to see an announcement of new regions some time in advance so I can prepare for the potential economic impact. Or perhaps an option to simply disable certain CloudFront pops if I don't care about them.
- cfontes 15y agoThanks god !!! Brazil is finally being noticed by big companies.
- Hikari 15y agoamazon is silently becoming a serious competitor to AKAMAI in term of location . now waiting for australia and of course China.
- mixmastamyk 15y agoParabens... I've been hoping/waiting for this for a year or two now. Great work, Amazon.