AWS London Region (eu-west-2) now available

That product x region matrix...<p>How many products is &#x27;enough&#x27; for Amazon, before they begin to consolidate?<p>I can&#x27;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...

Is there any obvious reason why the services currently available are so limited as compared to eu-west-1? Would we expect it just to grow with time?

Looks like they have just officially announced it on their blog.[0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;aws&#x2F;now-open-aws-london-region&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;aws&#x2F;now-open-aws-london-region&#x2F;</a>

Following the new AWS Canada region a week earlier.<p>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?

Any idea where the datacentres are? I know that amazon doesn&#x27;t disclose it, but should be noticable to have 2-3 new huge data centres? Would guess 1 AZ in Slough and the other one in the docklands (if they have 2AZs)?

It&#x27;s nice AWS focuses more in the EU. But how does AWS align with EU data protection laws now and in near future (in the regards of being a American company operating in the EU).

Is this backdoor-ready to comply with UK&#x27;s recent tech laws?

Shame to see Lambda isn&#x27;t supported yet, guess it will come soon.

I was wondering why so many announcements of non US data centers all of a sudden, in some cases very limited. My guess is that Trump winning has accelerated demand for companies to move their data off US property, and cloud providers are scrambling to meet that demand.

Here is a list of all AWS regions where EC2 is supported, since I have to support new regions for my own startup (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commando.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commando.io</a>).<p>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&#x27;s a nice starter instance for &quot;webish&quot; workloads.<p><pre><code> $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]</code></pre>