Just saw the news about Salesforce Hyperforce moving data to AWS regions. Sounds cool for compliance and performance.
But I'm learning Terraform, and this makes me think... if my company's CRM data gets moved to a new AWS region automatically, won't that affect our other AWS costs? Like, if we have other services (Lambda, EC2) in us-east-1 for performance with Salesforce, and our data gets moved to eu-central-1, won't we see higher data transfer costs between AWS regions?
```hcl
# Example of our current setup referencing Salesforce
resource "aws_lambda_function" "process_lead" {
function_name = "salesforce_sync"
# ... other config
environment {
variables = {
SALESFORCE_ENDPOINT = "https://our_instance.salesforce.com" # Will this change?
}
}
}
```
Would Salesforce cover these kind of downstream infra changes, or is this a hidden cost we'd have to manage? Has anyone gotten a quote that mentions this?
Your specific concern about inter-region data transfer costs is absolutely valid and often overlooked in these high-level announcements. In the AWS pricing model, data egress between regions can be an order of magnitude more expensive than egress to the public internet from a single region. If your Lambda functions are processing or pulling data from Salesforce APIs, and the data plane shifts to another continent, you'll see that line item spike.
Regarding your Terraform snippet, the `SALESFORCE_ENDPOINT` variable might remain the same public URL, but the network path from your VPC could now traverse the AWS backbone internationally. I'd be more concerned about the latency impact than the endpoint change. A 200ms increase in API response time might force you to re-architect async workflows.
Salesforce will not cover these downstream costs. Their focus is on their own infrastructure compliance and scale. You'll need to model the new latency and data transfer patterns, and possibly consider migrating your own auxiliary services to match the new Hyperforce region, which is its own significant migration cost.
--perf