More datacenters for the shared cluster

[schickling]

In order to guarantee even better response times there should be additional datacenters in...

• US East
• US West
• Asia Pacific

Note that private clusters can be hosted in any of these 12 AWS regions:

• us-east-2
• us-east-1
• us-west-2
• us-west-1
• ca-central-1
• eu-central-1
• eu-west-2
• eu-west-1
• ap-northeast-2
• ap-northeast-1
• ap-southeast-2
• ap-southeast-1

[marktani]

See #59 as well.

[malonehedges]

Here to request US West specifically. I'll be building apps primarily used in the west coast and would benefit greatly from that region.

[sedubois]

And could you also please remind where the current data center is? Ireland?

[marktani]

That's right. You can read more about our technology/data center setup here: https://www.graph.cool/docs/faq/graphcool-technology-ul6ue9gait

[mikeroelens]

+1 for US East. us-east-2 specifically.

[sorenbs]

@mikeroelens Can you elaborate on why us-east-2 specifically is important? Would a west coast datacenter provide any value to you at all?

[tomByrer]

@sorenbs If someone already has infrastructure in a particular AWS datacenter, it would be a performance benefit for all services would be in the same datacenter. You know, TCP/IP latency and all :)

I'd suggest building a survey (Google Docs work fine, turn on random shuffle) for current customers to vote on what DC is best for them. Maybe a first & second choice if you can only support 1 US DC.

[sedubois]

If I understand right, this issue proposes to have new locations, and the user would simply manually decide in which datacenter their project would be hosted, right?

How about websites with global presence (like the one I'm working on), what is the current and long-term strategy to ensure a fast response time for users from all major regions on Earth? I guess the data must then be replicated and kept synchronized across the various datacenters, is that planned?

[abefetterman]

Casting a vote for us-west-2 ! This will minimize average latency better than us-east, and be a benefit to the west coast developer community.

[stevewpatterson]

+1 for us-west

[sorenbs]

We are currently beta-testing regions in us-west-2 and ap-northeast-1. Please let me know if you want to be involved :-)

[aurnik]

@sorenbs If you need any help with US West I'd love to help!

[marktani]

Regions US West (Oregon) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) are now available: https://www.graph.cool/docs/blog/introducing-regions-and-better-performance-she7yaab6l/

[k00k]

+1 for us-east-*

[glenbray]

+1 for Australian region - ap-southeast-2

[sorenbs]

Hi @glenbray Is there any reason other than performance that you can't use the Tokyo region?

[glenbray]

Hi @sorenbs, We collect personal information. Our privacy laws allow us to store offshore, but I'd prefer our data remain within Australia.

[sorenbs]

Got it - thanks! 👍

[sebas5384]

What about South America? there's an AWS zone in São Paulo, Brazil.

[marktani]

This issue has been moved to graphcool/graphcool-framework.