AWS Announces Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region.

The leading cloud service provider, AWS (Amazon Web Services) has announced immediate availability of the new Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Mumbai is the sixth AWS Region in Asia along with Beijing, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. It becomes thirteenth worldwide region. It brings the total number of AWS Availability Zones to 35 worldwide.

The new Mumbai Region is currently available for multiple services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). 

The region is made available with two Availability Zones - ap-south-1a and ap-south-1b. The Mumbai region is cheaper than all other regions from Asia Pacific. Visit https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ to check the detailed pricing. 

List of services supported by AWS Mumbai Region :

• AWS Certificate Manager
• 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)
• 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

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