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Amazon EC2 now in Europe

24 points by spif 18y ago

ashleyw 18y ago
Does anyone know where in Europe they are hosted?
- danw 18y ago
  Cloudfront has nodes in # Amsterdam # Dublin # Frankfurt # London Possibly one of these is the location?
  - ashleyw 18y ago
    Ahh yes — if so I hope its Frankfurt! (its a little more centralized than the rest)
    - eru 18y ago
      I haven't seen it in Frankfurt, yet. ;)
  - ashleyw 18y ago
    Its acctully hosted in Ireland (likely Dublin), as confirmed by Amazon. Kind of a shame, its about as west as you can get in Europe! Those in England will get pings of around 100ms, and god knows what those in western europe like Italy, Greece, etc. will get...
- ropiku 18y ago
  In Ireland (see above)
delano 18y ago
The Europe zone is still not in the output from ec2-describe-availability-zones so it's not available quite yet.
- matthewking 18y ago
  Try updating your EC2 API, I think you need the latest release to see the EU availability zones.
  - delano 18y ago
    Ah, you need to explicitly add the region parameter to see the new zones: $ ec2-describe-availability-zones --region eu-west-1 AVAILABILITYZONE eu-west-1a available eu-west-1 AVAILABILITYZONE eu-west-1b available eu-west-1 You also need to create a new SSH key: $ ec2-add-keypair eu-west-1-key --region eu-west-1
trapper 18y ago
We have been waiting for this for over a year! Hooray amazon!
matthewking 18y ago
eu-west-1.ec2.amazonaws.com 87.238.87.32 is from Ireland(IE) in region Western Europe :)
- spif 18y ago
  Confirmed by Martin Buhr (AWS Head for EU) http://twitter.com/TallMartin/status/1048935032 http://twitter.com/TallMartin/status/1048935032
delano 18y ago
After some fiddling, I found some gotchas. Most importantly, SSH keys, security groups, and AMIs are not replicated between regions. You can use the ec2-migrate-bundle command (from the AMI tools) to copy your images from the US to Europe. ec2-migrate-bundle --location EU --cert /mnt/cert-*.pem --privatekey /mnt/pk-*.pem \ --access-key ORANGEJUICE --secret-key SUp0rS3kRu7 \ --bucket BUCKET-IN-US --destination-bucket BUCKET-IN-EU \ --manifest IMAGE.manifest.xml I put together the rest in another post: http://blog.solutious.com/post/64129126/using-amazon-ec2-in-europe http://blog.solutious.com/post/64129126/using-amazon-ec2-in-...

24 points by spif 18y ago

ashleyw 18y ago

Does anyone know where in Europe they are hosted?

danw 18y ago
Cloudfront has nodes in # Amsterdam # Dublin # Frankfurt # London Possibly one of these is the location?
- ashleyw 18y ago
  Ahh yes — if so I hope its Frankfurt! (its a little more centralized than the rest)
  - eru 18y ago
    I haven't seen it in Frankfurt, yet. ;)
- ashleyw 18y ago
  Its acctully hosted in Ireland (likely Dublin), as confirmed by Amazon. Kind of a shame, its about as west as you can get in Europe! Those in England will get pings of around 100ms, and god knows what those in western europe like Italy, Greece, etc. will get...
ropiku 18y ago
In Ireland (see above)

delano 18y ago

The Europe zone is still not in the output from ec2-describe-availability-zones so it's not available quite yet.

matthewking 18y ago
Try updating your EC2 API, I think you need the latest release to see the EU availability zones.
- delano 18y ago
  Ah, you need to explicitly add the region parameter to see the new zones: $ ec2-describe-availability-zones --region eu-west-1 AVAILABILITYZONE eu-west-1a available eu-west-1 AVAILABILITYZONE eu-west-1b available eu-west-1 You also need to create a new SSH key: $ ec2-add-keypair eu-west-1-key --region eu-west-1

trapper 18y ago

We have been waiting for this for over a year! Hooray amazon!

matthewking 18y ago

eu-west-1.ec2.amazonaws.com 87.238.87.32 is from Ireland(IE) in region Western Europe :)

spif 18y ago
Confirmed by Martin Buhr (AWS Head for EU) http://twitter.com/TallMartin/status/1048935032 http://twitter.com/TallMartin/status/1048935032

delano 18y ago

After some fiddling, I found some gotchas. Most importantly, SSH keys, security groups, and AMIs are not replicated between regions. You can use the ec2-migrate-bundle command (from the AMI tools) to copy your images from the US to Europe. ec2-migrate-bundle --location EU --cert /mnt/cert-*.pem --privatekey /mnt/pk-*.pem \ --access-key ORANGEJUICE --secret-key SUp0rS3kRu7 \ --bucket BUCKET-IN-US --destination-bucket BUCKET-IN-EU \ --manifest IMAGE.manifest.xml I put together the rest in another post: http://blog.solutious.com/post/64129126/using-amazon-ec2-in-europe http://blog.solutious.com/post/64129126/using-amazon-ec2-in-...