Choosing an AWS Region for a MENA Client: Latency Is the Last Question
Latency is the constraint everyone reaches for first when choosing an AWS region for MENA clients, and it is almost always the one that matters least. Residency law eliminates candidates, service availability eliminates more, and latency only picks between whatever survives. A practical walkthrough of that filter, with the commands to check service availability and region opt-in status programmatically, the guardrail that keeps the decision true, and the things that break in the first few weeks after you commit.
