Ask HN: What is the best cloud region to serve Japan and Australia?

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8 years ago

Currently we have two web servers that serve America and Europe. The servers are at East US and Ireland, they are shown as blue dots in the map:

https://imgur.com/a/IboyDCu

This simple configuration serves us well. However, Japan and Australia turned out to be very lucrative markets for us. If you take a closer look at the provided map, you'll see that those locations have a lot of red dots indicating some uncomfortable latency > 200 ms.

What is the best location for a third web server to serve Japan and Australia well?

The list of available regions to choose from: https://imgur.com/a/YXxRxrY

Southeast Asia region looks like a natural choice, but maybe someone has deeper experience with that area?

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