New Region in Mumbai Boosts Asia-Pacific Performance
Blog post from Stream
Stream has launched a new region in Mumbai, India, enhancing performance for its Asia-Pacific customers by providing extremely low-latency experiences for Stream Chat users. This expansion brings the total number of global regions to five, allowing app developers to integrate Stream Chat's API and SDKs as a high-performance, cost-effective alternative to building in-app chat functionalities from scratch. With infrastructure now in the AWS ap-south-1 region, users in or near India experience significantly reduced latency compared to the previous reliance on the Singapore region, with round-trip ping times dropping from around 60 milliseconds to below 2 milliseconds. Developers are encouraged to select the closest geographic region during the integration process to optimize performance, with configuration instructions available in the technical documentation. Stream Chat offers a fully-featured backend and customizable UI components for various chat use cases, enabling rapid deployment of in-app messaging comparable to leading platforms, and includes a free trial and a free-forever Stream Maker Account for small teams and personal projects.