[osipovas]

Maybe AWS US East is going to be the region with random failures?

"I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24103746

[choxi]

From the comments:

> Isn’t us-east-1 exactly that?

We've come full circle

[BillinghamJ]

It always has been - us-east-1 is the biggest region by far, so scale problems tend to arise there first.

[kjaftaedi]

All updates and patching start with us-east-1.

The main reason it has the most issues is because it's the guinea pig for production update deployments.