AWS Hosts Worldwide AWS has about 9 Regions where they host, each Region is split by at least two availability zones. If your setup is basic with no failover etc your SAS server was stood-up in one of those availability zones. That Region/Zone was selected by whoever set up the ec2 server and may not be your closest. You could Live on the west coast of the states and have your server in europe, not ideal. For myself I am in Auckland New Zealand and our closest AWS Region is Sydney Australia etc
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