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May be related: if hosting in China, you need an ICP license. Can't just open a shop or instance (in general... if Amazon have a way of getting around this, would be interesting).

Basically, while you can power-up a server in a datacenter, it shouldn't be accessed publicly via DNS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license

The commercial/business sense of the term Asia-Pacific almost always include India; so the dissonance argument isn't really valid.

This is the China homepage: https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/

I have been there but unfortunately no pricing info under EC2 or S3. Checked the product details link and FAQ links. Nothing.