Protip to anyone building new infrastructure in AWS: If you're gonna only use one region in the US, make it us-east-2 or us-west-2. us-east-1 is their oldest

Protip to anyone building new infrastructure in AWS: If you're gonna only use one region in the US, make it us-east-2 or us-west-2. us-east-1 is their oldest and biggest region but also the least stable in the US (ok technically us-west-1 is worse but you can't get that one anymore).