4.2-Choosing the AWS Region

Starting from here, let's choose an AWS Region as our playground, using the Region menu near the top right corner of the console.

The geographically closest to you is usually the best because it should give minimal latency (=delay) in network traffic between you and your server.

On the other hand, if most of your players are located far away from you and near each other, you may sometimes get better performance with a region near the players...

For this demo I'll choose Stockholm (called eu-north-1), an AWS region which is "virgin territory" for me (I have never used it before), so that the screenshots are not too crowded by pre-existing AWS resources :

Before you create any kind of AWS "resource", always verify you are in the region you want...