[spicybright]

It should be! When I was a complete newbie at AWS my first question was why do you have to pick a region, I thought the whole point was you didn't have to worry about that stuff

[nicce]

As far as I know, region selection is about regulation and privacy and guarantees on that.

[joncrane]

It's also about latency and nearness to users. Also some regions don't have all features so feature set also matters.

[speedgoose]

The region labels found within the metadata are very very powerful.

They make lawyers happy and they stop intelligence services to access the associated resources.

For example, no one would even consider accessing data from a European region without the right paperwork.