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by yann_eu 1032 days ago
Agree, data location is indeed a central challenge when building globally distributed apps.

We picked the largest peering points in Europe and the US for the two first locations aka Washington / US-East and Frankfurt in Europe. For the following 4 locations which we announced last week in early access [1], we tried to pick the next best-interconnected locations on the world map: SFO / the valley, Singapore, Paris, and Tokyo.

We definitely need to do a better job in the doc [2], we can definitely provide some mapping matrix and will be working on some latency measurements/speedtest/iperf servers.

In this direction, did you look at PolyScale [3]? They do the job of database caching at Edge.

What do you have in mind regarding lower-level access to compute? We're looking at providing block storage and direct TCP/IP support if that's what you have in mind.

[1] https://community.koyeb.com/t/changelog-25-san-francisco-sin...

[2] https://www.koyeb.com/docs/reference/regions

[3] https://www.koyeb.com/docs/integrations/databases/polyscale