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Originally Posted by Top Shelf
I really hope this puts pressure on Microsoft to get a data centre built out here. This will allow companies with latency sensitive applications to seriously look at migrating them to the cloud. Current US West 2 latency was about 35ms last time we checked, which can be okay depending on the application.
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There's a connection hub for Azure in Vancouver but it's not the same as a datacentre region where you can host your cloud infrastructure and services. Latency out to Toronto is really tough for certain applications. You can't get around the limits of the speed of light through the fiber.
Torquedog posted in the other thread that MS didn't have a Canada West region due to not having the power grid support but it sounds like Amazon is going to build some sort of solar infrastructure here?
Latency can be a big issue, we were part way through migrating our on-premises Oracle up to Azure when we realized that none of the applications liked the 50-90ms going to Toronto. The only solution we have right now is to look into virtual desktop infrastucture to have the user applications beside the database in Canada Central.