region·latency

AWS ca-west-1 latency

Canada West (Calgary) · Calgary, Alberta, CA. How long a round trip from your machine to this region takes — and how much of that distance alone demands.

The region

CloudAmazon Web Services
Region codeca-west-1
Region nameCanada West (Calgary)
Datacentre cityCalgary, Alberta, CA
Coordinates51.04, -114.07
Published IPv4 prefixes78
Probe endpointhttps://dynamodb.ca-west-1.amazonaws.com/
Probe stylea CORS request whose reply the page can read
VerificationResolved to an address inside this region’s own published range, TCP 443 open. Checked 2026-08-21.

Coordinates are the real datacentre city rather than the marketing region name, because they feed the distance maths below.

Distance, and the floor it sets

Light in fibre covers about 100 km per millisecond of round trip. These are the great-circle distances to Calgary, Alberta and the latency no network can beat — not a measurement, a limit. What you actually measure is this plus routing.

FromDistanceFloor
New York3,259 km33 ms
Los Angeles1,919 km19 ms
São Paulo10,579 km106 ms
London7,035 km70 ms
Frankfurt7,535 km75 ms
Johannesburg15,796 km158 ms
Dubai11,473 km115 ms
Mumbai12,189 km122 ms
Singapore13,181 km132 ms
Tokyo7,997 km80 ms
Sydney13,170 km132 ms

Nearest other regions

The closest regions to Calgary, Alberta on any cloud, with the distance between them and the floor that distance sets.

Measure it yourself

These figures are geometry. Your own round trip to ca-west-1 depends on your connection and the route it takes — open the instrument, pick AWS, and sweep. Every region is timed from your browser against the endpoint listed above, and the result is split into the part physics demands and the part the network added.

See every AWS region on the AWS latency page.