Dear Amazon Web Services Customer,
We are excited to announce our new South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Starting today, South America-based businesses and global companies with customers in South America can run their applications and workloads in the new Sao Paulo Region. This new Region significantly reduces latency to end-users in South America and allows those needing their data to reside in Brazil to easily do so.
The new Sao Paulo Region is currently available for multiple services, including: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Auto Scaling, AWS CloudFormation, and Amazon CloudWatch. For Sao Paulo Region pricing, please see the detail page for each service at http://aws.amazon.com/products/.
En mis pruebas iniciales con S3 desde Perú (muy básicas) no encontré mucha diferencia. En una conexión regular de 2Mbps no note diferencia. En la conexión de la oficina de 30Mbps la descarga desde USA llegó a mayor velocidad (511 vs 463). La latencia era casi igual en los dos 100ms en Brasil vs 110ms en USA.
Saludos,
Gustavo
Tengan en cuenta que la availability zone de Sao Paulo es la más cara de todas.