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It's not a joke. The us-east-1 region is one of if not the oldest. Some of the infrastructure is aging because it's hard to phase out. Amazon has learned a lot
by igetspam 6y ago
It's not a joke. The us-east-1 region is one of if not the oldest. Some of the infrastructure is aging because it's hard to phase out. Amazon has learned a lot since then and the newer regions have reaped all the benefits, where Virginia hasn't. There are components that exist in that region and don't exist in others but as a rule, I use those as remote resources and keep all my critical infra in Ohio, if I need to be near east.
- acdha 6y agoHave you actually measured it? I’ve had production workloads in us-east-1 for over a decade and haven’t seen it be notably different than the other regions. There’ve been a handful of times where there’s been a truly regional outage (17 minutes of network connectivity in 2011) and a couple of broader service outages (S3, IAM), but it’s not like the other regions never have problems. In general most of the time when I’ve heard people say “us-east-1 is unreliable” it’s ended up that they’re really telling you that they were in just one AZ, thought the RDS multiple AZ mode was too expensive, etc. and standard architectural guidance would have taken care of it.