I've been wondering this myself lately. It seems that every major EC2 outage hits US-East. By comparison, my US-West instances have way better uptime (granted,

I've been wondering this myself lately. It seems that every major EC2 outage hits US-East. By comparison, my US-West instances have way better uptime (granted, over a shorter test period). I've never tried the Europe or Asia zones, but I'm tempted to now.