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John
John

Reputation:

will my site be slow in amazon cloud if server is not in my country

I want to use and try cloud computing. The two options are GAE and Amazon, but I hate google data store so I don't want to use that.

But amazon doesn't have cloud in Australia, so if I buy that service in the US will my site be slow if people access it from my country?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 692

Answers (2)

Skyler Johnson
Skyler Johnson

Reputation: 3873

AWS has an endpoint in Southeast Asia for the majority of their services. If you're in Australia, that's probably the one you want to hit.

You said "Amazon", so I assume you're talking about EC2 and S3. If you're talking about Elastic Beanstalk, it's currently US-only, but it's not rocket surgery to figure out that they'll roll it out to other regions at some point.

Upvotes: 2

Dan Grossman
Dan Grossman

Reputation: 52372

Slower than if it were in your country.

Light can only travel so fast. It takes a dozen or two milliseconds to travel from Australia to Europe or to United States, and the same to get back. No communication (fiber optics, copper cable) is faster than light, so it's always going to be slower talking to servers on the other side of the planet than those that are close by.

Is it too slow? Not compared to hosting with anyone else outside your country. Amazon's network is certainly fast.

Upvotes: 0

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