[AusNOG] Amazon: And the winner is (not) Sydney

[Grant Moritz]

Last I heard the nearest Google cache farm was in Singapore although google
searching this I can't find anything to directly support that.

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:12 AM, James Troy <james.troy at intralot.com.au>wrote:

> I was under the impression that there was a google cache server in the PPC1
> australian landing point. Perhaps I could be wrong, that was just the
> impression that i have had for a long time.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:
> ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Fort
> Sent: Thursday, 3 March 2011 10:33 AM
> To: Alastair Waddell
> Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Amazon: And the winner is (not) Sydney
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Alastair Waddell
> <awaddell at legion.com.au> wrote:
> > AWS new region - any insiders know if the long wait for an Aus region
> might end soon?
> >
> >
> http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2011/03/02/announcing-asia-pacific-tokyo-region/
> >
>
> The back-of-envelope cost/benefit analysis says "a very long time".
> Think of the number of users in Tokyo, or within peering range of
> Tokyo.  Now consider, for example, how long it took Google to install
> just some cache machines in Australia.  Either of those companies will
> probably have a datacentre on the moon before they install one in
> Australia.  As Vijay said, you don't click on ads, do you?  :-)
>
> When someone makes me eat my words, please serve them with moon-cake.
>
> -a
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