Two years ago I've leaked the eu-central-1 in Frankfurt. Today I found the first hints for a new region called eu-west-2.

There are already API endpoints with a valid DNS record and a correct TLS subject in the certificate reachable:

$ timeout 1 openssl s_client -connect ec2.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com:443 2>&1 |grep subject
subject=/C=US/ST=Washington/L=Seattle/O=Amazon.com, Inc./CN=ec2.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com

This region is located is somewhere located in the UK. Based on latency it's in the metro region London.

From a host located in London we have a latency to this region between 1-3ms.

Packets               Pings
Host                                                                                                                     Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
1. router1-lon.linode.com                                                                                                 0.0%    15    0.7   0.7   0.6   1.2   0.0
2. 109.74.207.0                                                                                                           0.0%    15    0.9   1.6   0.7   2.4   0.4
3. 109.74.207.9                                                                                                           0.0%    15    2.6   1.1   0.8   2.6   0.5
4. 195.66.225.175                                                                                                         0.0%    14    1.4   2.6   1.3  15.2   3.6
5. 178.236.3.51                                                                                                           0.0%    14    2.6   3.2   2.5   7.0   1.2
6. 178.236.3.22                                                                                                           0.0%    14    3.4   2.9   2.5   4.5   0.3
7. 54.239.101.136                                                                                                         0.0%    14   24.1  15.4   5.3  24.1   5.6
8. 52.94.33.127                                                                                                           0.0%    14    2.6   2.7   2.5   3.5   0.0
9. 52.94.33.12                                                                                                            0.0%    14    3.6   4.0   2.3   7.1   1.8
10. ???
11. ???
12. ???
13. ???
14. 52.94.48.63                                                                                                            0.0%    14    2.3   2.3   2.1   2.9   0.0

The AWS Cloud operates today 35 Availability Zones within 13 geographic Regions around the world.

AWS says that 5 more Regions will come through the next year. eu-west-2 is probably launching in the next weeks.