[jelder]

No, that's pretty rare, and generally means you can't count on any features more sophisticated than VMs and object storage.

On the other hand, it's pretty embarrassing at this point for something as fundamental as Docker to be in a single region. Most cloud providers make inter-region failover reasonably achievable.

[richardwhiuk]

Almost all cloud providers help here by having inter-region failures as well.

There are multiple AWS services which are "global" in the sense that they are entirely hosted out of AWS East 1