I guess most places outside of EU/US have an increased price

US-East is the cheapest one and it seems to be the one everybody picks first. I can only guess how the capacity there compares to other datacenters

Also you can expect higher costs for hardware and infrastructure in places like India and Brazil

us-east-1 and us-west-2 pricing is locked to each other. Typically the power differences are related to the cost of power and transit/peering, not the capital of building the facilities.

Northern Virginia and Oregon have (generally) cheap power and cheap connectivity to anywhere in the world, with plenty of peering opportunities. In a developing country or with more expensive infrastructure (Mumbai, Tokyo) costs will be higher to get power and pull in fiber to peering locations with enough capacity to supply a provider of Amazon's size.

This is the correct analysis. Power costs are high in India and its often unreliable, requiring many industries to have expensive generators in place as backup.

But it's a bit cheaper than Singapore. For EC2, it appears to be ~5% cheaper!

Anyone know what the AWS China pricing is like? There does not seem to be anything on the web sites for S3 or EC2. None of the calculator sites seems to have China in their list.

And maybe its time for the Asia region to be broken away from Pacific (but keep both). Mumbai associated with Pacific introduces dissonance.

May be related: if hosting in China, you need an ICP license. Can't just open a shop or instance (in general... if Amazon have a way of getting around this, would be interesting).

Basically, while you can power-up a server in a datacenter, it shouldn't be accessed publicly via DNS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license

The commercial/business sense of the term Asia-Pacific almost always include India; so the dissonance argument isn't really valid.

This is the China homepage: https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/

I have been there but unfortunately no pricing info under EC2 or S3. Checked the product details link and FAQ links. Nothing.

Likely related to ensuring power systems are reliably guaranteed to stay available.