[bradhe]

Yeah I think there are a number of "hidden" dependencies on different regions, especially us-east-1. It's an artifact of it being AWS' largest region, etc.

[hshdhdhehd]

why dont they have us east 2, 3, 4 etc. Actually have different cities.

[bradhe]

us-east-1 is actually dozens of physical buildings distributed over a massive area. It's not like a single data center somewhere...

[sgarland]

us-east-2 does exist; it’s in Ohio. One major issue is a number of services have (had? Not sure if it’s still this way) a control plane in us-east-1, so if it goes down, so does a number of other services, regardless of their location.