How could I determine which AWS location is best for serving customers from a particular region?

Question

AWS has several locations for storage and EC2 instances to run upon with different pricing. How could I determine which location is best for a particular region. Is it intui

Answer 1

Here's a console tool that shows the nearest aws region:

• https://github.com/ekalinin/awsping

It's written in golang and very easy to use:

➥ ./awsping --verbose 1
      Code            Region                                      Latency
    0 eu-central-1    Europe (Frankfurt)                         36.97 ms
    1 eu-west-1       Europe (Ireland)                           63.18 ms
    2 us-east-1       US-East (Virginia)                        126.52 ms
    3 ap-south-1      Asia Pacific (Mumbai)                     156.98 ms
    4 us-west-1       US-West (California)                      192.92 ms
    5 us-west-2       US-West (Oregon)                          226.23 ms
    6 sa-east-1       South America (São Paulo)                 247.74 ms
    7 ap-northeast-1  Asia Pacific (Tokyo)                      312.22 ms
    8 ap-northeast-2  Asia Pacific (Seoul)                      329.54 ms
    9 ap-southeast-2  Asia Pacific (Sydney)                     337.84 ms
   10 ap-southeast-1  Asia Pacific (Singapore)                  395.73 ms

Regions are ordered by the latency.

You can run it on any server and determine the nearest region for you.