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by yuppie_scum 1890 days ago
Infrastructure as Code to define compute resources. Persistent data backup to global S3.

Ultimately, if us-east-1 goes down the whole web will be fucked anyway and your customers will be pretty forgiving to wait the brief amount of time for it to come back. (SLA nonwithstanding)

Chances are your MTTR for moving regions will take longer than waiting for the outage to be resolved.