[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?