There are some significant differences region to region in AWS. Different numbers of availability zones, different latencies based on datacenter location, diffe

There are some significant differences region to region in AWS. Different numbers of availability zones, different latencies based on datacenter location, different types and availabilities of EC2 instances, etc. I think it makes sense to develop in the same region that your production service runs in just so you don't shoot yourself in the foot by deploying something that runs fine in your development region but doesn't run as well in your production region.