Yes, this is the way regions develop. The grandpappy with everything is us-east-1 (well, historically anyway, which is why it also gets all the outages...), and the services slowly migrate out to other regions from there. You'll see new regions start to pile on services as time goes on.
Often they'll just pop into existence quietly. Our Sydney setup only had two AZs, and a few months ago, I noticed a third one. No idea when that came to life, but it would have been useful a year before :)
Hrm, fair enough. I thought it was us-east-1, though it seems that recently they're going in a few locations. But definitely, new services appear in the more mature regions first, and then gradually filter out to the others.
I'd expect there's an MVP of services AWS stands up in new regions, and then expands out from there as the underlying primitives shake out (this doesn't apply to GovCloud though).
Wow I had no idea it only takes 1 month to plan and build a a brand new datacenter!
In all seriousness, no. There's no way in hell Amazon would rush something like this just because of the election results. The risk is too high compared to the (probably very little) reward.
Oops I didn't mean to imply they built it from scratch in the last month. I wasn't clear. I meant they may have rushed the final steps a few months. Not possible?
Often they'll just pop into existence quietly. Our Sydney setup only had two AZs, and a few months ago, I noticed a third one. No idea when that came to life, but it would have been useful a year before :)