<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Amazon announced a new zone in Singapore for 2010. Does anyone know if access would be faster from Perth than accessing the services in the US?<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Fred<br><br>-------------------------<br><div class="h1">AWS Announces Expansion into Asia</div>
<p><span class="caps">AWS</span>
has announced an expansion of its services into an Asia-Pacific region
in the first half of 2010, enabling businesses to deploy compute and
storage resources in close proximity to their end-users in the region. <span class="caps">AWS</span> customers will be able to access <span class="caps">AWS</span>’s
infrastructure services from multiple Availability Zones in Singapore
in the first half of 2010, then in other Availability Zones within Asia
over the second half of 2010. <span class="caps">AWS</span> services available at the launch of the Asia-Pacific region will include Amazon <span class="caps">EC2</span>,
Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon
Simple Queue Service, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and Amazon CloudFront.</p><p>-----------------------<br></p><br></td></tr></table>