Best Azure Data Center choice for serving content in Canada?

Hello,
Curious - What is the best Data Center choice for a CDN if your primary audience is in Canada? (or does it even matter?)
I've asked Azure support if a data center will be opening up in Canada, and it appears that there are no plans for such. So, if we are serving [primarily images] via Azure Storage (CDN) -- what is the best choice for a data center; as all traffic will
be heading North (to Canada)?
Also -- does anyone know of a SIMPLE price comparison chart that shows the cost of all the major CDNs, i.e.: Azure, S3, Google, etc. with regard to storage costs and bandwidth costs? (Might be an interesting project to build)
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
As of now, there is no plan to open a Data center in Canada. However, depending on the location you are in Canada, you may choose East US2/EastUS or West US or North Central US DataCenter which ever is near by to you.
You may check the price of your services hosted in Azure through following link:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/?scenario=full
Regards,
Manu

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