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Yes. us-east-1 is the first AWS region Amazon made publicly available. It's also historically used by a lot of customers as "default region" where they launch a
by Dunedan 7y ago
Yes. us-east-1 is the first AWS region Amazon made publicly available. It's also historically used by a lot of customers as "default region" where they launch all workloads where they don't have special needs of launching them somewhere else.
That has lead to us-east-1 being the largest AWS region by far, also compromised of the largest number of availability zones (6) of all AWS regions.
- karmakaze 7y agoOk so it is this one. I was talking more about how the region itself has features, exceptions/quirks that are different than other AWS regions. Basically a quirks-mode region with differences that may, or may not impact you at some point in time. Or you do have special needs and US-East-1 is the only region that has the special non-standard ability you want to use.