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vault1984 — POP Map (AWS + is*hosting)

Provider Strategy

AWS — core markets where they have regions
is*hosting — everything else (real infrastructure, verified via Looking Glass, Equinix/Tier-3+ DCs)
Per-record replication for egress efficiency
Single Go binary + SQLite — no shared state, fully horizontal

The Map (23 confirmed POPs)

Americas (8)

City	Provider	DC	Notes
Virginia 🇺🇸	AWS us-east-1	AWS	US East
San Francisco 🇺🇸	AWS us-west-1	AWS	US West
Montréal 🇨🇦	is*hosting	eStruxture	Canada
Mexico City 🇲🇽	is*hosting	CloudHQ QRO1 (Querétaro)	LatAm North
Bogotá 🇨🇴	is*hosting	EdgeUno BOG6 (Cota)	LatAm Mid
São Paulo 🇧🇷	AWS sa-east-1 / is*hosting	Equinix SP4	LatAm largest
Santiago 🇨🇱	is*hosting	EdgeUno SCL2	LatAm South
Buenos Aires 🇦🇷	is*hosting	EdgeUno EZE1	LatAm South alt

Europe (3)

City	Provider	DC	Notes
London 🇬🇧	AWS eu-west-2	AWS	UK + Western Europe
Zürich 🇨🇭	is*hosting	Digitale Suisse AG	Central Europe
Madrid 🇪🇸	is*hosting	Interxion	Southern Europe

Middle East & Turkey (2)

City	Provider	DC	Notes
Istanbul 🇹🇷	is*hosting	Premier DC	Bridge EU/ME
Dubai 🇦🇪	is*hosting	Equinix DX1	Gulf hub

Africa (1)

City	Provider	DC	Notes
Cape Town 🇿🇦	AWS af-south-1	AWS	South Africa — only confirmed AWS region in Africa

Asia-Pacific (9)

City	Provider	DC	Notes
Mumbai 🇮🇳	AWS ap-south-1	AWS	South Asia
Singapore 🇸🇬	is*hosting / AWS	Equinix	SE Asia hub
Hong Kong 🇭🇰	is*hosting	Equinix	China gateway
Seoul 🇰🇷	AWS ap-northeast-2	AWS	Korea
Tokyo 🇯🇵	is*hosting	Equinix TY8	Japan
Sydney 🇦🇺	is*hosting	Equinix SY2	Australia
Almaty 🇰🇿	is*hosting	Sairam	Central Asia — unique, verified
Lima 🇵🇪	is*hosting	GTD Surco	Peru — bonus LatAm coverage
~~Auckland 🇳🇿~~	❌	—	BLACK SPOT — no AWS/is*hosting in NZ, nearest node Sydney

⚠️ Black Spots

West Africa

Lagos 🇳🇬 — Azure hub only, not a deployable region. Black spot.
Accra 🇬🇭, Dakar 🇸🇳, Abidjan 🇨🇮 — nothing real available
All of West Africa = black spot. Starlink + local NUC is the only honest option currently.

East Africa

Nairobi 🇰🇪 — Azure hub only, not a deployable region. Black spot.
Dar es Salaam 🇹🇿, Kampala 🇺🇬, Addis Ababa 🇪🇹 — not in is*hosting, no AWS
All of East Africa = black spot. Same situation as West Africa.

Turkey–Egypt region

Istanbul ✅ — is*hosting, Premier DC
Cairo 🇪🇬 — NOT in is*hosting's 41 locations. AWS has no Egypt region yet. Azure expanding but not GA.
Cairo = black spot. Closest real nodes are Istanbul (~1800km) or Dubai (~2500km).

New Zealand 🇳🇿

Auckland — not in is*hosting. AWS has no NZ region. Azure has no NZ region.
Nearest real node: Sydney (~2100km).
Auckland = black spot. Would need a local provider (Spark NZ, Vodafone NZ colocation) or Starlink.

Russia 🇷🇺

Moscow — is*hosting has no Russia node (sanctions exposure, payment issues)
AWS, Azure, GCP all withdrew from Russia in 2022
Russia = black spot by design — no safe, commercially viable option exists
Kyiv is in is*hosting but that's Ukraine, not a Russia workaround

China 🇨🇳

Hong Kong ✅ — as close as you get without operating inside China
Mainland China — requires ICP license from MIIT, mandatory backdoor access, legally incompatible with vault1984's operator-blind model
China mainland = black spot by architecture — cannot be done legally without compromising the product

Summary

Region	POPs	Black spots
Americas	8	None
Europe	3	None
Middle East/Turkey	2	Cairo
Africa	1	All of West Africa, all of East Africa, Cairo
Asia-Pacific	9	Auckland, Russia, China mainland
Total	25

Notes

Lima added from is*hosting (was previously missing from LatAm)
Atal Networks removed — SEO-only, no real exotic infrastructure
Russia and China mainland are architectural black spots, not operational failures
Auckland and Cairo are genuine gaps — local provider research needed