[AusNOG] Announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region

[Jay Mitchell]

I was pretty shocked at the pricing too. 

I spun up an instance last night and the only thing I noticed was that from my residential connection it was routing via .jp, but from the two business grade services I tested it was all local, loving that latency!

On 14/11/2012, at 9:33 AM, Emily Ozols <wingar at team-metro.net> wrote:

> I just read their prices this morning and I'm astounded as how low
> they've kept them.
> They have to be selling at a loss.
> http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing
> Just check them out here.
> 
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au> wrote:
>> This could make some impact re the peering thread at least on a national
>> scale. hmmm
>> 
>> -----------------------------
>> Dear AWS Customer,
>> 
>> We are excited to announce the immediate availability of our new Asia
>> Pacific (Sydney) Region.
>> 
>> Starting today, customers can run their applications and workloads in the
>> new Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region to reduce latency to end-users based in
>> Australia and New Zealand while avoiding the up-front expenses, long-term
>> commitments, and scaling challenges associated with maintaining and
>> operating their own infrastructure. Sydney joins Singapore and Tokyo as the
>> third Region in Asia Pacific and as the ninth Region worldwide.
>> 
>> AWS’s new Sydney
>> 
>> 
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