[goodells]

Yep, it has issues so frequently. I wonder how many companies/teams start using AWS and blindly choose us-east-1 without realizing what they're getting into.

<rant>

It's also quite annoying sometimes that some things _need_ to be in us-east-1, and if e.g. you are using Terraform and specify a different default region, AWS will happily let you create useless resources in regions that aren't us-east-1 that then mysteriously break stuff because they aren't in this one blessed region. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) certificates are like this, I believe.

</rant>

[mschuster91]

ACM certificates themselves can be had in any region (and you can use them for stuff like ELBs), but since the Cloudfront control plane is in us-east-1, if you want Cloudfront (and IIRC, also if you want custom domain names for an S3 bucket, but don't quote me on that) you'll have to create an additional certificate in us-east-1.

Sigh.