In what geographical region is my S3 bucket stored?
amazon-s3
Solution
Unless you specified something else, it'll be North America.
If you log in to Amazon web services, and view your usage report, it'll tell you whether it's EU / US or something other.
From reading the Amazon S3 / MapReduce stuff, the regions are different between the two apps, so you probably want to stick to either EU or US (rather than east or west).
Cheers
Problem
I have created an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket in the past, without specifying the geographic region for it to be stored in. How do I determine which region the bucket is located in? My reason for asking, is that I am preparing to run some "Amazon Elastic MapReduce" jobs on the data in the bucket, and this service asks me in what region I want the job to run. As it seems reasonable to run the job as close to the data as possible, I would like to know where to data actually is. The options in Elastic MapReduce are: - US East (Virginia) - US West (N. California) - EU West (Ireland) I am not if these are the exact same locations available in S3. Anyways, I would like to identify the one that is at least closest to my data.