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0 pointsbigbuppo5mo ago0 comments

Whose idea was it to make the whole world dependent on us-east-1?

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The NSA might be happy everything runs through a local data center to their Virginia offices

The most recent public count of datacenters for AWS in us-east-1 is 159. I suspect that’s even an unwieldy number for NSA to spy on.

dijit5mo ago

11 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8448894

US$70 billion in spend aggregating data, back then, this number has only increased.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/205395171454186...

alchemism5mo ago

AWS often deploys its new platform products and latest hardware (think GPUs) into us-east-1, so everyone has to maintain a footprint in us-east-1 to use any of it.

So as a result, everyone keeps production in us-east-1. =)

bigbuppoOP5mo ago

Not to mention, even if you went through the hassle of a diverse multi-cloud deployment, there's still something in your stack that has a dependency on us-east-1, and it's probably some weird frontend javascript module that uses a floatilla of free tier lambda services to format dates.

rickmode5mo ago

Isn’t it the cheapest AWS region? Or at least among the cheapest. If I’m correct, this incentivizes users to start there.

everfrustrated5mo ago

All countries are more expensive than the US, but many US regions are the same (cheapest) price. (eg Ohio, Oregon).

us-east-1 is more a legacy of it being the first region so by virtue of being the default region for the longest time most customers built on it.

lenerdenator5mo ago

1) People in us-east-1.

2) People who thought that just having stuff "in the cloud" meant that it was automatically spread across regions. Hint, it's not; you have to deploy it in different regions and architect/maintain around that.

3) Accounting.

wting5mo ago

Eh, us-east-1 is the oldest AWS region and if you get some AWS old timers talking over some beers they'll point out the legacy SPOFs that still exist in us-east-1.

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