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111 lines
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# vault1984 — POP Map (AWS + is*hosting)
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## Provider Strategy
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- **AWS** — core markets where they have regions
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- **is*hosting** — everything else (real infrastructure, verified via Looking Glass, Equinix/Tier-3+ DCs)
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- Per-record replication for egress efficiency
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- Single Go binary + SQLite — no shared state, fully horizontal
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## The Map (23 confirmed POPs)
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### Americas (8)
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| City | Provider | DC | Notes |
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|------|----------|----|-------|
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| Virginia 🇺🇸 | AWS us-east-1 | AWS | US East |
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| San Francisco 🇺🇸 | AWS us-west-1 | AWS | US West |
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| Montréal 🇨🇦 | is*hosting | eStruxture | Canada |
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| Mexico City 🇲🇽 | is*hosting | CloudHQ QRO1 (Querétaro) | LatAm North |
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| Bogotá 🇨🇴 | is*hosting | EdgeUno BOG6 (Cota) | LatAm Mid |
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| São Paulo 🇧🇷 | AWS sa-east-1 / is*hosting | Equinix SP4 | LatAm largest |
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| Santiago 🇨🇱 | is*hosting | EdgeUno SCL2 | LatAm South |
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| Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 | is*hosting | EdgeUno EZE1 | LatAm South alt |
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### Europe (3)
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| City | Provider | DC | Notes |
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|------|----------|----|-------|
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| London 🇬🇧 | AWS eu-west-2 | AWS | UK + Western Europe |
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| Zürich 🇨🇭 | is*hosting | Digitale Suisse AG | Central Europe |
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| Madrid 🇪🇸 | is*hosting | Interxion | Southern Europe |
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### Middle East & Turkey (2)
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| City | Provider | DC | Notes |
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|------|----------|----|-------|
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| Istanbul 🇹🇷 | is*hosting | Premier DC | Bridge EU/ME |
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| Dubai 🇦🇪 | is*hosting | Equinix DX1 | Gulf hub |
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### Africa (1)
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| City | Provider | DC | Notes |
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|------|----------|----|-------|
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| Cape Town 🇿🇦 | AWS af-south-1 | AWS | South Africa — only confirmed AWS region in Africa |
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### Asia-Pacific (9)
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| City | Provider | DC | Notes |
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|------|----------|----|-------|
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| Mumbai 🇮🇳 | AWS ap-south-1 | AWS | South Asia |
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| Singapore 🇸🇬 | is*hosting / AWS | Equinix | SE Asia hub |
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| Hong Kong 🇭🇰 | is*hosting | Equinix | China gateway |
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| Seoul 🇰🇷 | AWS ap-northeast-2 | AWS | Korea |
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| Tokyo 🇯🇵 | is*hosting | Equinix TY8 | Japan |
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| Sydney 🇦🇺 | is*hosting | Equinix SY2 | Australia |
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| Almaty 🇰🇿 | is*hosting | Sairam | Central Asia — unique, verified |
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| Lima 🇵🇪 | is*hosting | GTD Surco | Peru — bonus LatAm coverage |
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| ~~Auckland 🇳🇿~~ | ❌ | — | **BLACK SPOT** — no AWS/is*hosting in NZ, nearest node Sydney |
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## ⚠️ Black Spots
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### West Africa
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- **Lagos 🇳🇬** — Azure hub only, not a deployable region. **Black spot.**
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- **Accra 🇬🇭, Dakar 🇸🇳, Abidjan 🇨🇮** — nothing real available
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- All of West Africa = black spot. Starlink + local NUC is the only honest option currently.
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### East Africa
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- **Nairobi 🇰🇪** — Azure hub only, not a deployable region. **Black spot.**
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- **Dar es Salaam 🇹🇿, Kampala 🇺🇬, Addis Ababa 🇪🇹** — not in is*hosting, no AWS
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- All of East Africa = black spot. Same situation as West Africa.
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### Turkey–Egypt region
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- **Istanbul ✅** — is*hosting, Premier DC
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- **Cairo 🇪🇬** — NOT in is*hosting's 41 locations. AWS has no Egypt region yet. Azure expanding but not GA.
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- Cairo = **black spot**. Closest real nodes are Istanbul (~1800km) or Dubai (~2500km).
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### New Zealand 🇳🇿
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- **Auckland** — not in is*hosting. AWS has no NZ region. Azure has no NZ region.
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- Nearest real node: Sydney (~2100km).
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- Auckland = **black spot**. Would need a local provider (Spark NZ, Vodafone NZ colocation) or Starlink.
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### Russia 🇷🇺
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- **Moscow** — is*hosting has no Russia node (sanctions exposure, payment issues)
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- AWS, Azure, GCP all withdrew from Russia in 2022
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- Russia = **black spot by design** — no safe, commercially viable option exists
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- Kyiv is in is*hosting but that's Ukraine, not a Russia workaround
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### China 🇨🇳
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- **Hong Kong ✅** — as close as you get without operating inside China
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- **Mainland China** — requires ICP license from MIIT, mandatory backdoor access, legally incompatible with vault1984's operator-blind model
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- China mainland = **black spot by architecture** — cannot be done legally without compromising the product
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---
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## Summary
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| Region | POPs | Black spots |
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|--------|------|-------------|
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| Americas | 8 | None |
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| Europe | 3 | None |
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| Middle East/Turkey | 2 | Cairo |
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| Africa | 1 | All of West Africa, all of East Africa, Cairo |
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| Asia-Pacific | 9 | Auckland, Russia, China mainland |
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| **Total** | **25** | |
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## Notes
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- Lima added from is*hosting (was previously missing from LatAm)
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- Atal Networks removed — SEO-only, no real exotic infrastructure
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- Russia and China mainland are architectural black spots, not operational failures
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- Auckland and Cairo are genuine gaps — local provider research needed
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