[discodave]

To figure out where the next AWS regions are going, go down the wikipedia list of countries by GDP and try to think which large markets are not well served yet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)

In the Middle East there are several markets larger than Israel, and putting a region in Israel will probably not be tenable for Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the like.

There is no region in Africa...

Russia & Eastern Europe is not that well served...

[solatic]

But most of the Middle East and Africa aren't wired up well enough to begin with let alone have strong entrepreneurial cultures to push for local cloud adoption. Israel has a booming startup culture, they just all must use European clouds if they decide to go with a cloud infrastructure (and the vast majority of them do).

Fast connections there are also few and far between in the Middle East and Africa. In Israel, LTE is ubiquitous in urban areas, most residences have either DOCSIS 3.0 or Fiber-to-the-curb, and a nationwide FTTH infrastructure is being built out currently. Domestic connections are great - the problem is just that almost nothing is hosted domestically.

Eastern Europe / Western Russia sounds like a good idea to me, although I'm not familiar with their local Internet topologies.