Resource zone affinity is annoying but usually works fine if you have 1 ASG per zone (Azure and afaik GCP are the same way). You mainly need to be careful durin

Resource zone affinity is annoying but usually works fine if you have 1 ASG per zone (Azure and afaik GCP are the same way). You mainly need to be careful during initial creation to make sure the volumes are spread out WaitForFirstConsumer is very helpful, too (you basically guarantee the pod can be scheduled at least once before creating the resources which greatly improves the likelihood it can get rescheduled in the future without getting stuck) Don't remember seeing any issues on AWS but I've seen Azure CSI take about 7.5 minutes to unmount a volume from 1 and mount to another (so each pod in a statefulset can take around 8-10 minutes)