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by nodesocket 3498 days ago
Arggg, does not apply to west coast instances (us-west-1 and us-west-2).
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Asking as an ignorant foreigner: Does anyone know what makes us-west more expensive than us-east? Is it just land or electricity prices or something like that?
It's near rich SV customers, so maybe customer value due to latency?
Our Amazon rep tells us it's all about the cost of electricity.
11c/kWh in bay area, 6c/kWh in Oregon and Nevada. Old data here but salient: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/10/27/141766341/the-p...
I think it does -- "Price cuts apply across all AWS Regions."

The regions listed were just examples. Check back Dec 1.