Hi folks, I'm currently evaluating Metaplay for a realtime-ish* multiplayer game. I just wanted to check that [this](https://docs.metaplay.io/game-server-programming/how-to-guides/multi-region-backend.html) is still correct? Specifically, that Metaplay cloud deployments must be hosted on

eu-west-1

? We intend to soft-launch in the US first, and having all players perform a round-trip from us-west to eu-west wouldn't be ideal. Similarly, the backend team is very small (spoiler alert: it's me), and sellf-hosting an entire Metaplay deployment just to get a

us-west

cluster is very expensive in both Metaplan plan fees and my time. Relatedly, I wondering if the Metaplay SDK includes any tools for simulating poor network performance? Assuming the above is true, we'd ideally want to evaluate the experience of us players on eu-servers, without resorting to a VPN or similar. * The game is turn-based, but we have some latency-sensitive aspects. Namely, actions from P1 should be receieved and evaluated on P2's device within about 0.25 -- 0.5s to land correctly on the beat of music playing on their local device.

For your second question, we have a few different tools, there's some [docs](https://docs.metaplay.io/feature-cookbooks/unity-sdk-features/simulating-a-poor-network-connection.html#poor-connection-simulation-tool) about them. We don't have anything like pretending to be in a different region.

Simulating Latency looks ideal, thank you

@laurie As the docs mention, we do currently only offer eu-west-1 hosting out of the box. If running on a US region is a hard requirement, we do have the capability to spin up a US prod stack, the costs however might differ from our standard offering (I don't have numbers at this time unfortunately). If this is something you'd like to explore further, please reach out to our business people (I think you should already have their contact info, otherwise let me know and I can put you in contact with them).

Thanks Jurjen, that's really good to know. I do have your business contacts, so I'll get in touch a bit later.