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Working for a company that is both owned by Amazon and use docker hub for quite a while for a lot of Base images for build the number of times that we had build failures or minor outages due to docker hub being down or us being rate limited is well into four digits. Luckily these were generally low impact on a developer could emergency patch in some of these situations so it never really got us. But if someone who's been pushing for us to just use the AWS alternative since we're very heavily on AWS because we're owned by Amazon so it just makes sense, it's always been a little bit frustrating that people just pull directly from the internet as opposed to the AWS data center that they're literally running in. So I'm very happy about these base images on my computer platform at a very very low cost (network) with high availability for me.

As the AWS public docs say it's always better to pull from the data center that you're sitting in. Data center math is always more forgiving if you pull from the data center you're in as opposed to playing from another Data center because the chance that both data centers are having problems is higher than the chance that any one is having problems.