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Re:AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region by raverbashing on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @04:29AM (#11992276)
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

Re:AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region by flyt on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @05:50AM (#11992521)
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.

Re:AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region by pm90 on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @11:25AM (#11994483)
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.