us-east-1 is the largest AWS region by far, and is located in northern VA. There are tons of employees already located nearby for this reason alone, among other

us-east-1 is the largest AWS region by far, and is located in northern VA. There are tons of employees already located nearby for this reason alone, among other AWS work that's already happening. Additionally, public sector sales is a huge part of the business, and you need people in DC/VA in order to make that happen. I doubt building a full HQ2 in Nova is possible, but a 40,000/10,000 split between the two places makes a ton of sense.