Amazon S3 in Europe
In today’s newsletter from Amazon Web Services, I found out that Amazon S3 is launching storage in Europe. Some of the prices are slightly higher (compare here) but for the potentially higher EU transfer speeds, it should be well worth it.
As of now, the code samples appear to have been updated to support creation of buckets located in the EU, but the documentation is still the old one. Some of the more popular S3 tools, such as S3Sync and JetS3t, are also yet to be updated.
Update: S3Sync and JetS3t now support EU buckets, and updated documentation on how to create them using the API is available here.