Interesting tidbit in the announcement: Data between the US-East-1 and US-East-2 regions is priced at the lower inter-AZ rate ($0.01 per GB, or half price). That's pretty great if you're looking to add a layer of regional redundancy.
I really wish there was an API that allowed me to just get a list of all available regions including their descriptive names.<p>As it stands, when AWS adds a region I have to make manual updates to update my systems.<p>AWS has APIs for everything else, why not a comprehensive API for regions and their descriptive names?<p>EDIT: for the downvoters - please specify exactly the REST API call that I make to get regions and their abbreviated and descriptive names. I'd be happy even to see the API in the JavaScript SDK. It doesn't exist.
Anyone know what part of the state the datacenters are located in? Or are they just all over the place?<p>EDIT: Apparently the facilities are in a couple townships around Columbus (which is in the dead center of the state). Neat. <a href="http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2015/05/29/amazon-has-big-plans-in-ohio.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2015/05/29/...</a>
As someone who works with a fairly large EC2 infrastructure, I find the move towards EBS-only instance types somewhat alarming. For me, the main draw of EBS is to ensure data is retained in the case of instance failure, but it comes with significantly lower performance than instance-store SSDs and is more expensive. I've resisted EBS for the most part, and all of my servers are treated as disposable, but AWS is obviously trying to get rid of it as an option. The only reason I can think of is the excessive amount of money they can charge for EBS instances (especially PIOPS)
I wondered how soon "Coming soon" would be. Now I have to update my recent blog post [0] before the final two parts are even out :) - part two is out tomorrow BTW.<p>There seems to be a bit of an arms race with Azure right now. The current map [1] has four more regions "Coming soon". Looking forward to London.<p>[0]: <a href="https://unop.uk/on-aws-vs-azure-vendor-lock-in-and-pricing-confusion-part-1/" rel="nofollow">https://unop.uk/on-aws-vs-azure-vendor-lock-in-and-pricing-c...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/" rel="nofollow">https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/</a>