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Best West Coast Location? LA vs. Bay Area vs. Seattle
Hi everyone, similar to my other thread about East Coast locations I would like to know which west coast location you are preferring and the reasoning. Will other locations be a no go or would they be fine as well if there is only one of the three?
Let's assume this is market research for providers who would look to expand to the west coast 
Thanks!
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Los Angeles is definitely the most common data center location on the west coast. It's one of the most well-interconnected hubs to Asia and the rest of the US.
Las Vegas is more price efficient, and still has amazing latency.
Same thoughts. Vegas is (imo) a pretty good replacement for LA. You'll likely find a better deal overall due to power and space costs. Connectivity is also very good.
Seattle/PDX/Bay Area just depends. They're all similar. The same holds true for Seattle, though: you'll likely add ~2-5ms but save a huge amount of money going to central WA or the WA/OR border. Both of these locations is where Microsoft, Google, Facebook all have big datacenters and are building more.
If minimizing your latency to Asia matters the most, even to the tune of a few ms, likely LA or Seattle and being as few hops as possible/XC directly to whoever is taking you undersea to Asia.