It's better to use multiple regions instead of multiple zones in a single region. The costs are very similar (and sometimes even the same) especially with the r

It's better to use multiple regions instead of multiple zones in a single region. The costs are very similar (and sometimes even the same) especially with the ridiculous networking fees. Also object storage is a great way to expand capacity for queueing systems instead of oversized instances. We either write to Kafka or fall back to writing files to S3 across different buckets and providers.