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Whose idea was it to make the whole world dependent on us-east-1?
by bigbuppo 1y ago
Whose idea was it to make the whole world dependent on us-east-1?
- nemomarx 1y agoThe NSA might be happy everything runs through a local data center to their Virginia offices
- kondro 1y agoThe most recent public count of datacenters for AWS in us-east-1 is 159. I suspect that’s even an unwieldy number for NSA to spy on.
- dijit 1y ago11 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8448894 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8448894 US$70 billion in spend aggregating data, back then, this number has only increased. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2053951714541861 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/205395171454186...
- lenerdenator 1y ago1) People in us-east-1. 2) People who thought that just having stuff "in the cloud" meant that it was automatically spread across regions. Hint, it's not; you have to deploy it in different regions and architect/maintain around that. 3) Accounting.
- wting 1y agoEh, us-east-1 is the oldest AWS region and if you get some AWS old timers talking over some beers they'll point out the legacy SPOFs that still exist in us-east-1.
- rickmode 1y agoIsn’t it the cheapest AWS region? Or at least among the cheapest. If I’m correct, this incentivizes users to start there.
- everfrustrated 1y agoAll countries are more expensive than the US, but many US regions are the same (cheapest) price. (eg Ohio, Oregon). us-east-1 is more a legacy of it being the first region so by virtue of being the default region for the longest time most customers built on it.
- alchemism 1y agoAWS often deploys its new platform products and latest hardware (think GPUs) into us-east-1, so everyone has to maintain a footprint in us-east-1 to use any of it. So as a result, everyone keeps production in us-east-1. =)
- bigbuppo 1y agoNot to mention, even if you went through the hassle of a diverse multi-cloud deployment, there's still something in your stack that has a dependency on us-east-1, and it's probably some weird frontend javascript module that uses a floatilla of free tier lambda services to format dates.