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Re:Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks by cldellow on Saturday June 13, 2015 @04:01PM (#9712415)
Amazon does have POPs in Australia, but they cost more so many companies choose not to use them.
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Re:Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks by sitharus on Saturday June 13, 2015 @05:37PM (#9712774)
Yep, that's why they're only 150ms a lot of the time. CloudFront has a few AU pops, no NZ ones though.

The Singapore and Japan zones help, but most still goes to the US.

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