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We are excited to announce that we have further expanded our AWS infrastructure. The new Canada (Central) Region is now operational, allowing users to access AWS services starting today. Customers situated in Canada and the northern regions of the United States can enjoy rapid, low-latency connectivity to our comprehensive suite of AWS infrastructure offerings.
Key Features
This latest region supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) along with related services such as Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, NAT Gateway, Spot Instances, and Dedicated Hosts. It also includes support for Amazon Aurora, AWS Certificate Manager (ACM), AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudFront, AWS CloudHSM, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Config, AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), AWS Direct Connect, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR), AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon EMR, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Glacier, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), Amazon Kinesis, AWS Marketplace, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Route 53, AWS Shield Standard, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF), AWS Storage Gateway, AWS Trusted Advisor, and VM Import/Export.
The region supports various instance types, including C4, D2, M4, T2, and X1. In our ongoing commitment to sustainability, AWS data centers in Canada utilize power sourced from a grid that generates approximately 99% of its electricity through hydropower. For more details, check out AWS Sustainability.
Connectivity Metrics
Following positive feedback regarding network latency metrics shared during the launch of the Ohio region, I am pleased to present a new set of metrics today. These figures represent the minimum latency and may vary over time.
- Canadian Cities:
- 9 ms to Toronto
- 14 ms to Ottawa
- 47 ms to Calgary
- 49 ms to Edmonton
- 60 ms to Vancouver
- US Locations:
- 9 ms to New York
- 19 ms to Chicago
- 16 ms to US East (N. Virginia)
- 27 ms to US East (Ohio)
- 75 ms to US West (Oregon)
Canada is also home to CloudFront edge locations in Toronto, Ontario, and Montréal, Quebec.
Expanding Our Global Reach
The launch of the Canada (Central) Region increases our global presence to 15 regions and 40 availability zones, with plans for seven additional availability zones and three more regions to go live within the coming year. Each region consists of at least two availability zones (AZs), enhancing application availability, fault tolerance, and durability compared to reliance on a single AZ.
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— Chanci Turner