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There's a lot of software, iirc even Amazon's own dashboards, that simply defaults to us-east-1.

• akira2501 3y ago
  That's my favorite part of Amazon's console. That miniature heart attack you have when you ask "WHERE ARE ALL MY LAMBDAS AND DYNAMO INSTANCES?" Then you realize that they just switched you back to us-east-1 for some reason and a wave of familiar relief washes over you.
  • redwood 3y ago
    Out of curiosity have you been building with the serverless framework? I'm curious what drives people to use dynamodb in particular
    • akira2501 3y ago
      No, I really don't like any of the serverless or amplify type of frameworks that AWS produces. What I needed was a distributed store for managing a large number of small configuration "files" and other state "links" across the infrastructure I built. In particular, I needed the ability for a write conflicts to be detected and managed immediately and for consistent reads to be available in some cases. Looking at the size of data and number of transactions, DynamoDB on a per-request model was going to be significantly cheaper and easier than standing up a bunch of DB instances or other "fixed" infrastructure. The ultimate model was to actually implement something like a POSIX filesystem on top of the "nosql" layer. In practice, I've been really happy with that decision, and it makes working on the code that interacts with this system very familiar and easy to understand. It's even got symlinks, acls, and automatically expiring advisory locks.
• paulddraper 3y ago
  FWIW, mine defaults to Ohio. Has happened multiple times. IDK if it is geographic or what.