When determining the right Region for your services, data, and applications, consider the following four business factors:
- Compliance with data governance and legal requirements
- If your company requires all of its data to reside within the boundaries of the UK, for example, you would choose the London Region.
- General Data Protection Regulation is a regulatory requirement designed to protect the personal data and privacy of individuals within the European Union (EU).
- Proximity to your customers
- Regions closer to your user base minimize the travel time of data.
- Feature availability
- not all Regions contain all AWS services.
- Pricing