<story><title>An AWS Region is coming to France</title><url>http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2016/09/aws-announce-eu-france-region.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dazbradbury</author><text>For those in London wondering where is best for UK based customers, it seems, for London at least, this &lt;i&gt;could&lt;/i&gt; be an improvement over Dublin (where Frankfurt is slower), as Paris is roughly 70 miles closer. Of course, depending on where &amp;#x2F; when [1] a UK-based data centre is released, I&amp;#x27;d imagine that would be faster still.&lt;p&gt;Currently Ireland vs. Frankfurt is (more data needed of course)[2]:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Europe (Ireland): 25 ms   27 ms   24 ms
  Europe (Frankfurt): 39 ms   39 ms   42 ms
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And Frankfurt is about 100 miles further than Dublin.&lt;p&gt;But for a quick test, this looks like a good tool: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cloudping.info&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cloudping.info&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Will be interested to test this once released to see UK &amp;#x2F; Paris vs. Dublin.&lt;p&gt;[1] Article states UK region &amp;quot;due in coming months&amp;quot;. No location announced?&lt;p&gt;[2] Hitting ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com vs. ec2.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arviewer</author><text>AWS in London is coming within months, so if latency to London is your concern, that&amp;#x27;s not an issue anymore.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;aws.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;blogs&amp;#x2F;aws&amp;#x2F;coming-in-2017-new-aws-region-in-france&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;aws.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;blogs&amp;#x2F;aws&amp;#x2F;coming-in-2017-new-aws-regi...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>An AWS Region is coming to France</title><url>http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2016/09/aws-announce-eu-france-region.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dazbradbury</author><text>For those in London wondering where is best for UK based customers, it seems, for London at least, this &lt;i&gt;could&lt;/i&gt; be an improvement over Dublin (where Frankfurt is slower), as Paris is roughly 70 miles closer. Of course, depending on where &amp;#x2F; when [1] a UK-based data centre is released, I&amp;#x27;d imagine that would be faster still.&lt;p&gt;Currently Ireland vs. Frankfurt is (more data needed of course)[2]:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Europe (Ireland): 25 ms   27 ms   24 ms
  Europe (Frankfurt): 39 ms   39 ms   42 ms
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
And Frankfurt is about 100 miles further than Dublin.&lt;p&gt;But for a quick test, this looks like a good tool: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cloudping.info&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cloudping.info&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Will be interested to test this once released to see UK &amp;#x2F; Paris vs. Dublin.&lt;p&gt;[1] Article states UK region &amp;quot;due in coming months&amp;quot;. No location announced?&lt;p&gt;[2] Hitting ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com vs. ec2.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aroch</author><text>For anyone using Virgin Media as their ISP, the Dublin DC will perform more predictably, if not faster, because of VM&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;give preference to data originating inside the UK&amp;#x2F;Ireland and don&amp;#x27;t give two shits about anything else&amp;quot; attitude.&lt;p&gt;If you run a data heavy service, PoP inside the UK or Ireland is a must if you want to avoid throttling and heavy-handed traffic shapping.</text></comment>