How many products is 'enough' for Amazon, before they begin to consolidate?
I can't be alone in thinking the vast range is off-putting, not to mention the more range there is the more AWS-specific it is, making it simultaneously harder and more important to figure out the right choice...
Having a wide range of products at a variety of price points and capabilities sounds better than a "one size fits most" approach.
Like perhaps you decide to use a product that they're not particularly interested in supporting very well, and a year later they decide to shutter the service which performs a crucial role in your environment...
I am not suggesting that Amazon is actually going to do this, but it's certainly more likely than, say, EC2 going away.
Often they'll just pop into existence quietly. Our Sydney setup only had two AZs, and a few months ago, I noticed a third one. No idea when that came to life, but it would have been useful a year before :)
In all seriousness, no. There's no way in hell Amazon would rush something like this just because of the election results. The risk is too high compared to the (probably very little) reward.
[0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-london-region/
An application i maintain at $DAYJOB has a drop-down selection for AWS region and i have periodically updated the list of possible values. Is it idiomatic for end-user software to manually enter the endpoint?
Thought about just hooking it up to the API?
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_De...
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_De...
[1] https://github.com/boto/boto/commit/2b405c0740a52101d85fb17d...
The more likely cause was that cloud providers could see the trend towards countries instituting data residency requirements, which was clear last year.
[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/
UPDATED: I also added the hourly cost (in US dollars) of a c4.large instance in each region to compare. I picked c4.large since it's a nice starter instance for "webish" workloads.
$0.10 - US East (N. Virginia) [us-east-1]
$0.10 - US East (Ohio) [us-east-2]
$0.124 - US West (N. California) [us-west-1]
$0.10 - US West (Oregon) [us-west-2]
$0.11 - Canada (Central) [ca-central-1]
$0.11 - Asia Pacific (Mumbai) [ap-south-1]
$0.114 - Asia Pacific (Seoul) [ap-northeast-2]
$0.115 - Asia Pacific (Singapore) [ap-southeast-1]
$0.13 - Asia Pacific (Sydney) [ap-southeast-2]
$0.126 - Asia Pacific (Tokyo) [ap-northeast-1]
$0.114 - EU (Frankfurt) [eu-central-1]
$0.113 - EU (Ireland) [eu-west-1]
$0.119 - EU (London) [eu-west-2]
$0.155 - South America (Sao Paulo) [sa-east-1]