I think amazon can fix this problem simply by raising us-east prices to be on par with us-west. At least then there would not be quite the incentive to make the

I think amazon can fix this problem simply by raising us-east prices to be on par with us-west. At least then there would not be quite the incentive to make the foolish choice of running all your instaces out of one region. (I suppose they could lower prices in us-west to match as well) But in any case, I expect the PAAS people like heroku to at least start to step up their game. My apps on Google App Engine are up and I can run clojure and ruby there too.