# 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.

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

![](https://681104499-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LhjKavWMofrik61tHfB%2F-LislZXUIiBKJXRAayb4%2F-Lisxqb8TpupUzPilaD7%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=c4aa18a7-4329-45c6-9556-5fdfa6eda717)

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