Comments on: Amazon adds down-under presence with new Asia-Pacific region in Sydney http://gigaom.com/2012/11/12/amazon-adds-down-under-presence-with-new-asia-pacific-region-in-sydney/ Fri, 24 May 2013 20:48:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rakefet Shohat http://gigaom.com/2012/11/12/amazon-adds-down-under-presence-with-new-asia-pacific-region-in-sydney/#comment-1176144 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:08:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=583394#comment-1176144 Attunity CloudBeam (http://www.attunitycloudbeam.com) enables huge uploads to S3, on-premise to S3 synchronization and replication between S3 regions. Now you can easily transfer your S3 files to the region closest to you…

]]> By: David Mytton http://gigaom.com/2012/11/12/amazon-adds-down-under-presence-with-new-asia-pacific-region-in-sydney/#comment-1173933 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:21:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=583394#comment-1173933 We have a monitoring node in Australia for Server Density and bandwidth prices have been a major cost concern, so it’s good to see AWS coming in to start making things more competitive. Perhaps the problem has been many smaller providers unable to get the volume discounts, which Amazon should be able to make use of.

Some interesting comments about the pricing differences compared to other regions are at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4773038

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