> All database primaries established in US East Coast again. This resulted in the site becoming far more responsive as writes were now directed to a database se

> All database primaries established in US East Coast again. This resulted in the site becoming far more responsive as writes were now directed to a database server that was co-located in the same physical data center as our application tier. All their application servers were in the east coast DC. There wasn't anything to fail over to in the west coast DC. Why they had this fail over config for their DB is a bit unusual given the topology, it seems like they probably meant to use these replicas purely for DR.