It worries me slightly the way AWS adds new regions with wildly fluctuating prices. We currently serve a decent amount of traffic in the US, over CloudFront. We also have some clients in South America, currently being served by the US pops. While speed isn't great, it's decent enough for what we're doing (simple jpg serving).
With AWS opening up a new pop in South America, all of a sudden, whatever traffic we have to South America is doubled in price, from one day to the other. While we don't serve enough SA traffic for that to be an issue for us, I can certainly see it becoming an issue.
As a customer I'd like to see an announcement of new regions some time in advance so I can prepare for the potential economic impact. Or perhaps an option to simply disable certain CloudFront pops if I don't care about them.
With AWS opening up a new pop in South America, all of a sudden, whatever traffic we have to South America is doubled in price, from one day to the other. While we don't serve enough SA traffic for that to be an issue for us, I can certainly see it becoming an issue.
As a customer I'd like to see an announcement of new regions some time in advance so I can prepare for the potential economic impact. Or perhaps an option to simply disable certain CloudFront pops if I don't care about them.