[startledmarmot]

Realtime applications. Anything having to do with video & audio mixing or interaction (WebRTC, VoIP, AR/XR, NLU, Gaming, etc...) Having those as close to the end consumers as possible can dramatically improve the experience and make them far more engaging/enjoyable.

In fact, it's critical enough in many applications that clients may want to access the services in the same cloud they use /as well as/ in the same region (or potentially in their own data center.) So that means designing the systems to deploy on any cloud provider.

While this does limit the number of niceties you can use from a single provider, it allows for some pretty amazing flexibility.