> Us-east-1 is where all the shiny new features are released Not true at all. It'll be among the first for newer features, in as much as the US regions usual

> Us-east-1 is where all the shiny new features are released Not true at all. It'll be among the first for newer features, in as much as the US regions usually are among the first, but it's certainly not the first place code is deployed to. All services in AWS start out software deployments in smaller regions where the blast radius of a software bug is likely to be smaller.