To extend what I'm trying to say is that customers shouldn't have to do this and that updating of this data (which ideally should be in a machine readable format, much like ip-ranges.json) is just another step. I would like to hope that AWS already has playbooks for taking a region out of closed-beta and making it GA. If the listing of af-south-1 is already present on other sections of documentation this may already be the case.
Show me that magic unicorn company that spins data centres like that with 0 documentation bugs and I’ll join you criticising them. As it stands with limited resources I am pretty impressed with the speed AWS keeps adding capacity around the world.
Screw-ups will happen no matter how much wishful thinking and effort is spent preventing them. If you assume perfection in things then you will be sorely disappointed by most everything.
I'll send the feedback through anyhow.