tags: #publish links: [[AWS]] created: 2020-10-14 Wed --- # AWS Regions https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regions_az/ [[AWS Inter-region latency, ping times]] [[AWS Major Region Failure Scenarios]] [[AWS GovCloud (US)]] | Region Name | Code | Location | | ------------------------ | -------------- | -------- | | US East (Ohio) | us-east-2 | | | US East (N. Virginia) | us-east-1 | Ashburn | | US West (N. California) | us-west-1 | | | US West (Oregon) | us-west-2 | | | AWS GovCloud (US-East) | us-gov-east-1 | | | AWS GovCloud (US-West) | us-gov-west-1 | | | Africa (Cape Town) | af-south-1 | | | Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) | ap-east-1 | | | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | ap-south-1 | | | Asia Pacific (Osaka) | ap-northeast-3 | | | Asia Pacific (Seoul) | ap-northeast-2 | | | Asia Pacific (Singapore) | ap-southeast-1 | | | Asia Pacific (Sydney) | ap-southeast-2 | | | Asia Pacific (Tokyo) | ap-northeast-1 | | | Canada (Central) | ca-central-1 | | | China (Beijing) | cn-north-1 | | | China (Ningxia) | cn-northwest-1 | | | Europe (Frankfurt) | eu-central-1 | | | Europe (Ireland) | eu-west-1 | | | Europe (London) | eu-west-2 | | | Europe (Milan) | eu-south-1 | | | Europe (Paris) | eu-west-3 | | | Europe (Stockholm) | eu-north-1 | | | Middle East (Bahrain) | me-south-1 | | ## Quirks - `us-east-1` is the biggest, oldest region and "default" for some stuff, so tends to get more publicity of outages - but is not necessarily any less reliable. And hey it has heaps of capacity - `us-west-1` is rather constrained on capacity (e.g. new instance availability) and only has two AZs. It's probably better to use `us-west-2` instead