[naikrovek]

> AWS (and all other IAAS providers) will beg you to use multiple region

will they? because AWS still puts new stuff in us-east-1 before anywhere else, and there is often a LONG delay before those things go to other regions. there are many other examples of why people use us-east-1 so often, but it all boils down to this: AWS encourage everyone to use us-east-1 and discourage the use of other regions for the same reasons.

if they want to change how and where people deploy, they should change how they encourage it's customers to deploy.

my employer uses multi-region deployments where possible, and we can't do that anywhere nearly as much as we'd like because of limitations that AWS has chosen to have.

so if cloud providers want to encourage multi-region adoption, they need to stop discouraging and outright preventing it, first.

[CRConrad]

> AWS still puts new stuff in us-east-1 before anywhere else, and there is often a LONG delay before those things go to other regions.

Come to think of it (far down the second page of comments): Why east?

Amazon is still mainly in Seattle, right? And Silicon Valley is in California. So one would have thought the high-tech hub both of Amazon and of the USA in general is still in the west, not east. So why us-east-1 before anywhere else, and not us-west-1?

[WaxProlix]

Most features roll out to IAD second, third, or fourth. PDX and CMH are good candidates for earlier feature rollout, and usually it's tested in a small region first. I use PDX (us-west-2) for almost everything these days.

I also think that they've been making a lot of the default region dropdowns and such point to CMH (us-east-2) to get folks to migrate away from IAD. Your contention that they're encouraging people to use that region just don't ring true to me.

[danielheath]

It works really well imo. All the people who want to use new stuff at the expense of stability choose us-east-1; those who want stability at the expense of new stuff run multi-region (usually not in us-east-1 )

[mypalmike]

This argument seems rather contrived. Which feature available in only one region for a very long time has specifically impacted you? And what was the solution?