I am surprised I don't see the geographic distribution of AWS as a huge appealing aspect of the service. If you are trying to deploy a global solution, I don't

I am surprised I don't see the geographic distribution of AWS as a huge appealing aspect of the service. If you are trying to deploy a global solution, I don't know any way as cost effective as rolling out images to all the regions you need and rolling out the same scripts, knowledge, strategies to each region to get your service up and running. Opening accounts with dedicated providers in each country as an alternative sounds infinitely more painful.