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Now, I may well be naive - but isn't the point of these systems that you fail over gracefully to another data centre and no-one notices?
by ryanmcdonough 1y ago
Now, I may well be naive - but isn't the point of these systems that you fail over gracefully to another data centre and no-one notices?
- spicybright 1y agoIt should be! When I was a complete newbie at AWS my first question was why do you have to pick a region, I thought the whole point was you didn't have to worry about that stuff
- nicce 1y agoAs far as I know, region selection is about regulation and privacy and guarantees on that.
- speedgoose 1y agoThe region labels found within the metadata are very very powerful. They make lawyers happy and they stop intelligence services to access the associated resources. For example, no one would even consider accessing data from a European region without the right paperwork.
- speed_spread 1y agoBecause if they were caught they'd have to pay _thousands_ of dollars in fines and get sternly talked to be high ranking officials.
- joncrane 1y agoIt's also about latency and nearness to users. Also some regions don't have all features so feature set also matters.
- Nifty3929 1y agoOne might hope that this, too, would be handled by the service. Send the traffic to the closest region, and then fallback to other regions as necessary. Basically, send the traffic to the closest region that can successfully serve it. But yeah, that's pretty hard and there are other reasons customers might want to explicitly choose the region.
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- sofixa 1y ago> another data centre Yes, within the same region. Doing stuff cross-region takes a little bit more effort and cost, so many skip it.
- pjmlp 1y agoAssuming that the service actually bothered to have multiple regions as fallbacks configured.