When determining the right Region for your services, data, and applications, consider the following four business factors:

  1. 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).
  2. Proximity to your customers
    • Regions closer to your user base minimize the travel time of data.
  3. Feature availability
    • not all Regions contain all AWS services.
  4. Pricing