Are you an Indian AWS (Amazon Web Services Cloud Customer)? Are you interested in adopting AWS Mumbai Region for production?
We have an analysis that will help you decide whether or not to go for AWS Mumbai Region. This blog will examine aspects such as “cost comparison”, services availability, S3 objects download speed test, latency control, compliance” between nearby and famous regions.
AWS’s region is a term that describes a collection of AWS resources within a geographical area. Each region has multiple, isolated locations calledAvailability Zones. AWS was announced in June 2016.
As the 13th AWS Regional, Asia Pacific (Mumbai). AWS now provides 35 AZs in 13 regions around the globe.
More than 75,000 customers based in India are already using other AWS regions to save money, speed up innovation, and expand their geographic reach in a matter of minutes.
What does Mumbai area mean to all existing customers and new customers?
The Mumbai Region allows Indian-based developers, start ups, enterprises, government organizations, and non-profits to use the AWS Cloud to run applications from India. This also provides lower latency for India-based end users. AWS Mumbai Region now offers two separate Availability Zones. India now has an Edge location in New Delhi for Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53. Delhi is the third Indian edge location (along with Chennai and Mumbai).
The BIG question is: Why choose Mumbai region to be an Indian organization?
Price comparison between different regions
We compared the pricing of AWS services (eg. – EC2) within different AWS Regions. North Virginia’s pricing for EC2 is much lower than that of Tokyo, Singapore, and Mumbai.
North Virginia is the most expensive region, but Mumbai will be a popular choice for Indian and other customers. Mumbai is less expensive than Tokyo and Singapore in terms of price and network latency. Before the arrival in Mumbai, Singapore was considered the closest and Tokyo the most expensive region.
Speed test for S3 object download
To test the download speed of S3, we created four S3 buckets in different regions, including Mumbai, N.Virginia and Singapore. We uploaded a file of 10MB to each bucket and then downloaded it in EC2. Mumbai was faster than other regions such as N.Virginia or Singapore.
Performance of the network between regions:
We have the following results when we check the performance of the network between EC2 instance in India and a local machine in India. These include the amount of data transferred, bandwidth achieved, and other parameters: –
We found that Mumbai has the highest data transfer rate from India, followed by Singapore, Tokyo, and finally North Virginia.
North Virginia is the cheapest region in the world and also has the lowest data transfer rates from India. This comparison reveals the impact of an AWS region in Mumbai on Indian organisations. It also confirms that the Mumbai region has the highest data transfer rate and is the cheapest among the Asia Pacific Regions (such as Tokyo, Singapore, and Tokyo).
Compliance
Each AWS region in Mumbai is designed and built to comply with strict compliance standards, including ISO 27001 and ISO 9001, ISO 27017 and ISO 27018, SOC 1, SOC 2 and PCI DSS Level 1 (to mention a few). AWS uses an information Security Management System, (ISMS), that is independently evaluated by qualified third parties. These assessments address a wide range of requirements and are communicated to customers through certifications or audit reports that can be found on our public-facing website.
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