AWS expanding their footprint again, this time with a new region in Mumbai, India. AWS customers in the area can use the new Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region to better serve end users in India.
New Region
The new Mumbai region has two Availability Zones, raising the global total to 35. It supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) (C4, M4, T2, D2, I2, and R3 instances are available) and related services including Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, Auto Scaling, and Elastic Load Balancing.
It also supports the following services:
- AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
- AWS CloudFormation
- Amazon CloudFront
- AWS CloudTrail
- Amazon CloudWatch
- AWS CodeDeploy
- AWS Config
- AWS Direct Connect
- Amazon DynamoDB
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- Amazon ElastiCache
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service
- Amazon EMR
- Amazon Glacier
- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- AWS Import/Export Snowball
- AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
- Amazon Kinesis
- AWS Marketplace
- AWS OpsWorks
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) – all database engines including Amazon Aurora
- Amazon Route 53
- Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
- Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
- Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF)
- AWS Support
- AWS Trusted Advisor
- VM Import/Export
There are now three edge locations (Mumbai, Chennai, and New Delhi) in India. The locations support Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, and S3 Transfer Acceleration. AWS Direct Connect support is available via our Direct Connect Partners (listed below).
This is our thirteenth region (see the AWS Global Infrastructure map for more information). As usual, you can see the list of regions in the region menu of the Console:

To read more, visit following source link.
http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-asia-pacific-mumbai-region
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