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by hshdhdhehd 242 days ago
why dont they have us east 2, 3, 4 etc. Actually have different cities.
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bradhe 241 days ago
us-east-1 is actually dozens of physical buildings distributed over a massive area. It's not like a single data center somewhere...
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sgarland 242 days ago
us-east-2 does exist; it’s in Ohio. One major issue is a number of services have (had? Not sure if it’s still this way) a control plane in us-east-1, so if it goes down, so does a number of other services, regardless of their location.
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