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thanks, first time seeing that

• surfer7837 6y ago
  It's so the load is evenly distributed across AZs because I bet most people just select -az-1.
  • tedk-42 6y ago
    As another commenters mentioned, the AZ letter different per account.
    • asymptotic 6y ago
      https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-with-az-ids.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-wit... “To identify the location of your resources relative to your accounts, you must use the AZ ID, which is a unique and consistent identifier for an Availability Zone. For example, use1-az1 is an AZ ID for the us-east-1 Region and it is the same location in every AWS account” So each separate AWS account will have a different AZ name that maps to use1-az1, but use1-az1 is a region-wide constant.