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Amazon Web Services now in Australia (Sydney)

Post author By James Collins
Post date 13th November 2012
2 Comments on Amazon Web Services now in Australia (Sydney)

Big news this morning:

Amazon Web Services has just launched an AWS region in Sydney, Australia!

The new Asia Pacific (Sydney) region supports almost all of AWS’ services including EC2, RDS, S3 and many more.

After launching an Australian Edge Location in June 2012 for Route 53 and CloudFront, I (along with many other Australian developers) have been waiting for AWS to launch a fully-fledged Australian region.

Whilst there are already some Australian-specific Cloud Computing offerings, this is a big day for us now that the AWS juggernaut has launched here.

Rackspace (another large cloud computing provider) has previously committed to launching a Syndey-based datacentre in 2012, however we are yet to see that launch.

Overall, I think that more competition in the Australian cloud industry can only be a good thing for us. It’s likely to help drive down the high costs of Australia’s high bandwidth/data.

Onwards and upwards!

Tags Australia, AWS, cloud, CloudFront, EC2, Sydney

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WordPress User Groups in Australia – Some Statistics

Post author By James Collins
Post date 10th October 2012
2 Comments on WordPress User Groups in Australia – Some Statistics

Below are some statistics that demonstrate how popular the WordPress user groups are in Australia:

Location	Population	Number of Group Members	% of Population in Meetup Group
Hobart	216,276	93	0.0430%
Bendigo	89,666	23	0.0257%
Brisbane	2,146,577	342	0.0159%
Sydney	4,605,992	661	0.0144%
Melbourne	4,169,103	516	0.0124%
Canberra	367,752	42	0.0114%
Adelaide	1,262,940	81	0.0064%
Perth	1,832,114	66	0.0036%
Wollongong	288,101	9	0.0031%

As you can see, Hobart has the highest percentage of their population being a member of their user group. Well done Japh!

Here in Melbourne, it looks like we have some work to do.

Population Figures are sourced from Wikipedia as of 10 October 2012.

Number of Group Members Figures were sourced from each meetup.com group page as of 10 October 2012.

Tags Adelaide, Australia, Bendigo, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, meetup, Perth, Sydney, Wollongong, WordPress

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Australia?

Post author By James Collins
Post date 27th June 2011
10 Comments on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Australia?

Cloud solutions such as Amazon Web Services can be a cost-effective way for businesses to obtain a highly scalable online presence.

However, for performance (and privacy) reasons, many Australian business owners require their website and other data to be physically hosted in Australia.

As an Australian user of AWS, one of the recurring conversations I continue to have with other Australians is if (and when) will Amazon Web Services add an Australian region to their service offerings?