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First year AWS Region Europe (Zurich)
07.11.2023
The AWS Europe (Zurich) Region went live on November 9th 2022. In the past year AWS has rolled out a lot of additional services in eu-central-2.
Service history in eu-central-2 from November 2022 to November 2023.
Globally AWS has over 200 services for a wide range of technology, industries, and use cases. This explosion in offerings gives more flexibility, but comes with significant complexity (Stanley, Ant. Cloud Complexity Paradox. 2023):
- Complexity in choice
- Multiple services can be used to achieve a similar outcome (e.g. in AWS there are 17 ways to run a container).
- Complexity in tools
- There are a lot of tools that can be used to provision and maintain the infrastructure.
- Complexity in abstraction (drives all the other levels of abstraction)
- High abstracted services reduces the lines code shipped to production you are responsible for. However, these abstracted services need more configuration, which increases the amount of configuration code. The complexity has moved from operational to configuration complexity.
A New AWS Region Opens in Switzerland
I am pleased to announce today the opening of our 28th AWS Region: Europe (Zurich), also known by its API name: eu-central-2.
AWS regional services list archive
The AWS regional services list is archived on a daily basis.
- AWS regional services list archive, Lukas Akermann
AWS Services by Region
List of AWS Services Available by Region
Cloud Complexity Paradox
The more undifferentiated heavy lifting you offload to the cloud, the more complex it becomes to use the cloud.
- Wayback Machine (archived 26.09.2023): Cloud Complexity Paradox, Ant Stanley
The 17 Ways to Run Containers on AWS
There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are 17 ways to run containers on AWS. I will now enumerate them..
- The 17 Ways to Run Containers on AWS, Corey Quinn