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Wow, how did I not know this? Thanks for the info.

• vacri 9y ago
  They randomise the AZ letters, because humans tend to shove things in 'a' before anywhere else - it's a psychological load-balancer. If you want to figure out which of your AZs corresponds to another account's AZs, you can compare spot-prices, which are individual per AZ. Also, for some reason, my account doesn't have a 'b', just a-c-d-e. Weird.
  • misframer 9y ago
    They also introduced us-east-1f, and it's the same for everyone because it's new :).
    • misframer 9y ago
      Not sure why I was downvoted. This was mentioned in an issue of Last Week in AWS [0]. [0] https://snarkive.lastweekinaws.com/issue_14-_US-East-1_Drops_An_F-Bomb.html https://snarkive.lastweekinaws.com/issue_14-_US-East-1_Drops...
  • nodesocket 9y ago
    Interesting that the idea is to distribute load across the zones (because people default to using A), but Google Cloud zones are uniform across all accounts and it seems to work for Google.
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