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by hericium 1659 days ago
> Even this little tidbit is a bit of a wtf for me. Why do they consider it ok to have anything hosted in a single region?

They're cheap. HA is for their customers to pay more, not for Amazon which often lies during major outages. They would lose money on HA and they would lose money on acknowledging downtimes. They will lie as long as they benefit from it.