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

[Jay Mitchell]

I maxed out a 100mbps pipe pushing about 10gig of data to my instance last night. Don't have anything larger to test with unfortunately.

On 14/11/2012, at 10:07 AM, Emily Ozols <wingar at team-metro.net> wrote:

> Anyone tested their speeds yet? I want to know what they're selling,
> gonna assume 100Mbit.
> 
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Jay Mitchell <jay at miscreant.org> wrote:
>> 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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