[AbstractH24]

No, but it does reflect the dangers of incentivizing everyone to use a single region.

Most people (myself include) only choose it because its the cheapest. If multiple regions were the same price then there'd be less impact if one goes down.

[leptons]

The problems with us-east-1 have been apparent for a long time, many years. Once I started using us-east-1 long ago, and seeing the problems there, I moved everything to us-west-1 and stopped having those problems. EC2 instances were completely unreliable in us-east-1 (we were running hundreds to thousands at a time), not so in us-west-1. The error rates we were seeing were awful in us-east-1.

A negligible cost difference shouldn't matter when your apps are unstable due to the region being problematic.

[AbstractH24]

> A negligible cost difference shouldn't matter when your apps are unstable due to the region being problematic.

agreed, but a sizable cohort of people don't have the foresight or incentives for think past their nose and clicking the cheapest option.

So its on Amazon to incentivize what's best.

[leptons]

People's lack of curiosity, enough to not even explore the other options, is not Amazon's problem.