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Amazon EC2 now in Europe

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After some fiddling, I found some gotchas. Most importantly, SSH keys, security groups, and AMIs are not replicated between regions. You can use the ec2-migrate-bundle command (from the AMI tools) to copy your images from the US to Europe.

    ec2-migrate-bundle --location EU --cert /mnt/cert-*.pem --privatekey /mnt/pk-*.pem \
    --access-key ORANGEJUICE --secret-key SUp0rS3kRu7 \
    --bucket BUCKET-IN-US --destination-bucket BUCKET-IN-EU \ 
    --manifest IMAGE.manifest.xml

I put together the rest in another post: http://blog.solutious.com/post/64129126/using-amazon-ec2-in-...

The Europe zone is still not in the output from ec2-describe-availability-zones so it's not available quite yet.

Try updating your EC2 API, I think you need the latest release to see the EU availability zones.

Ah, you need to explicitly add the region parameter to see the new zones:

    $ ec2-describe-availability-zones --region eu-west-1
    AVAILABILITYZONE	eu-west-1a	available	eu-west-1
    AVAILABILITYZONE	eu-west-1b	available	eu-west-1

You also need to create a new SSH key:

    $ ec2-add-keypair eu-west-1-key --region eu-west-1

eu-west-1.ec2.amazonaws.com 87.238.87.32 is from Ireland(IE) in region Western Europe

Confirmed by Martin Buhr (AWS Head for EU) http://twitter.com/TallMartin/status/1048935032

We have been waiting for this for over a year! Hooray amazon!

Does anyone know where in Europe they are hosted?

Cloudfront has nodes in

# Amsterdam # Dublin # Frankfurt # London

Possibly one of these is the location?

Ahh yes — if so I hope its Frankfurt! (its a little more centralized than the rest)

I haven't seen it in Frankfurt, yet. ;)

Its acctully hosted in Ireland (likely Dublin), as confirmed by Amazon. Kind of a shame, its about as west as you can get in Europe! Those in England will get pings of around 100ms, and god knows what those in western europe like Italy, Greece, etc. will get...

In Ireland (see above)

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