Best AWS Datacentre location for SA

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In the process of moving our site's DB over to AWS, with the plan of transferring everything over a bit later.
I was just wondering what the best location would be in terms of latency in South Africa - Just by looking on a map, I would guess either Ireland or Singapore?

Anyone have real experience in this matter that would care to advise?
Thanks
 
Ireland is your best bet.

When say real experience, that depends what you are asking?

I've got a few RDS MySQL databases running and I've got some experience with S3 and EC2.

What kind of advice I give would depend what exactly what you intend to use the databases for.
 
Gnome said:
Ireland is your best bet.

When say real experience, that depends what you are asking?

I've got a few RDS MySQL databases running and I've got some experience with S3 and EC2.

What kind of advice I give would depend what exactly what you intend to use the databases for.
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Great, thanks thats exactly what I have in mind. Amazon RDS, with S3. Just wanted to ensure that it was in fact Dublin. I know I experienced better speed from other host's Singapore location, but I also know that it's the exception not the rule.
 
Come to think about it, you side of the country, Singapore might actually be better. Should be pretty close in any case.
 
I'd go for Singapore as well. When the Seacom cable breaks, it's usually between North Africa/Egypt and France. Singapore routes won't be affected at all (note I said WHEN)
 
envo said:
I'd go for Singapore as well. When the Seacom cable breaks, it's usually between North Africa/Egypt and France. Singapore routes won't be affected at all (note I said WHEN)
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Dublin has 3 EC2 AZ's vs 2 in Singapore if you want to go for multi-AZ redundancy and more cables running to Europe around both sides of Africa, so there are arguments both ways. Personally I would suggest Maverick should flip a coin. :)
 
gkm said:
Dublin has 3 EC2 AZ's vs 2 in Singapore if you want to go for multi-AZ redundancy and more cables running to Europe around both sides of Africa, so there are arguments both ways. Personally I would suggest Maverick should flip a coin. :)
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lol pretty much yea, with WACS the redundancy is quite high here now, there will be a slow down initially as ISP's switch to their backup. Other ISP's go direct through WACS and has Seacom as a backup, or even satellite. Up to the user I guess
 
Thanks - probably leaning towards to Dublin at this moment, seems like there is a bit more infrastructure connecting the 2 points than Singapore, but think the difference will be quite minimal either way.
 
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