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Your us-east-1b may be the parents us-east-1c. The letters are randomised per AWS account so that instances are spread evenly and biases to certain letters don
by mike-cardwell 5y ago
Your us-east-1b may be the parents us-east-1c.
The letters are randomised per AWS account so that instances are spread evenly and biases to certain letters don't lead to biases to certain zones.
- chrishynes 5y agoHuh, that's interesting. Didn't know that, but makes sense.
- thrtythreeforty 5y agoIt's pretty cool. If I recall, they call it "shuffle sharding."
- ciceryadam 5y agoYou can check which availability zone is with: aws ec2 describe-availability-zones --region us-east-1