AWS hosting for SA

[scud]

Hi There.
I'm looking to setup Aws cloud servers for a web app that needs to accessed in SA.

My question is , since Aws has no local presence, is it going to impact speeds/ latency to any large/noticeable degree? Compared to a local server

 

[rterblanche]

All cloud providers has a 200ms latency.

Depends on your website if you will see it. The less round trip calls you make the better. But speed wise you
won't see a difference.

Remember speed and latency are two different things.

 

[scud]

All cloud providers has a 200ms latency.

Depends on your website if you will see it. The less round trip calls you make the better. But speed wise you
won't see a difference.

Remember speed and latency are two different things.

Thanks rterblanche
Yes it's speed I'm thinking about. Just never deployed on Aws before, and don't want to regret it

 

[Adenoid Hynkel]

Choose Ireland or Frankfurt as the region. We have better latency to Ireland.

Regarding speed, depending on what you go for. Start with the smallest instance and upgrade on the fly as needed. Not sure how busy the app will be and what it is for. If it's to be accessed by the public, also look into load balancing and autoscaling once the user base grows.

 

[scud]

Choose Ireland or Frankfurt as the region. We have better latency to Ireland.

Regarding speed, depending on what you go for. Start with the smallest instance and upgrade on the fly as needed. Not sure how busy the app will be and what it is for. If it's to be accessed by the public, also look into load balancing and autoscaling once the user base grows.

Good points , my money's on the Irish

 

[oober]

You can make use of their micro instance for free for 12 months. https://aws.amazon.com/free/

 

[Veroland]

We have been running Apps (both our own and our Pastel server) in AWS for a while now and speed has never been an issue.

The only issue we see now and then is connectivity to the States

 

[scud]

We have been running Apps (both our own and our Pastel server) in AWS for a while now and speed has never been an issue.

The only issue we see now and then is connectivity to the States

Well 24 hours in and Aws rocks,( as long as the client is paying for it)
Finally managed to separate MySQL / Apache / Tomcat and VPN to their own instances + zones
Used to all sit on a thing with a fan

 

[gkm]

For some of our stuff, moving to AWS actually increased speed a fair bit. Yes, there is more latency, but was more than made up for by the faster response times we got from our better databases and servers.

We could have gotten the same faster response times on our old local servers, but it would have meant a very expensive hardware upgrade, for which we did not have much appetite.

I can also strongly recommend Ireland for best latencies. Hosting in the US regions has much bigger latencies, so stay away from there if your primary user base is in SA.