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Why do folks host their stuff in us-East? Is there a draw other than organizational momentum?
by alostpuppy 5y ago
Why do folks host their stuff in us-East? Is there a draw other than organizational momentum?
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Why do folks host their stuff in us-East? Off the top of my head, US-EAST-1 is: (1) topologically closer to certain customers than other regions (this applies to all regions for different customers), (2) consistently in the first set of regions to get new features, (3) usually in the lowest price tier for features whose pricing varies by region, (4) where certain global (notionally region agnostic) services are effectively hosted and certain interactions with them in region-specific services need to be done. #4 is a unique feature of US-East-1, #2-#3 are factors in region selection that can also favor other regions, e.g., for users in the West US, US-West-2 beats US-West-1 on them, and is why some users topologically closer to US-West-1 favor US-West-2.
- alostpuppy 5y agoThank you! This one is why I love HN.
- superdug 5y agoIt's the cheapest.
- deanCommie 5y agous-east-2 has exactly the same prices as us-east-1.
- res0nat0r 5y agoMost likely inertia. us-east-1 was the first AWS region, gets new features released there first and is the largest in the USA, so many companies have been running their for many years, and the cost of moving to us-east-2 > the cost of occasional AWS created downtime.