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0 pointsryanmcdonough5mo ago0 comments

Now, I may well be naive - but isn't the point of these systems that you fail over gracefully to another data centre and no-one notices?

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spicybright5mo ago

It should be! When I was a complete newbie at AWS my first question was why do you have to pick a region, I thought the whole point was you didn't have to worry about that stuff

nicce5mo ago

As far as I know, region selection is about regulation and privacy and guarantees on that.

joncrane5mo ago

It's also about latency and nearness to users. Also some regions don't have all features so feature set also matters.

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speedgoose5mo ago

The region labels found within the metadata are very very powerful.

They make lawyers happy and they stop intelligence services to access the associated resources.

For example, no one would even consider accessing data from a European region without the right paperwork.

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sofixa5mo ago

> another data centre

Yes, within the same region. Doing stuff cross-region takes a little bit more effort and cost, so many skip it.

pjmlp5mo ago

Assuming that the service actually bothered to have multiple regions as fallbacks configured.

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spicybright5mo ago

It should be! When I was a complete newbie at AWS my first question was why do you have to pick a region, I thought the whole point was you didn't have to worry about that stuff

nicce5mo ago

As far as I know, region selection is about regulation and privacy and guarantees on that.

joncrane5mo ago

It's also about latency and nearness to users. Also some regions don't have all features so feature set also matters.

1 more reply

speedgoose5mo ago

The region labels found within the metadata are very very powerful.

They make lawyers happy and they stop intelligence services to access the associated resources.

For example, no one would even consider accessing data from a European region without the right paperwork.

1 more reply

sofixa5mo ago

> another data centre

Yes, within the same region. Doing stuff cross-region takes a little bit more effort and cost, so many skip it.

pjmlp5mo ago

Assuming that the service actually bothered to have multiple regions as fallbacks configured.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse