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No, but it does reflect the dangers of incentivizing everyone to use a single region. Most people (myself include) only choose it because its the cheapest. If
by AbstractH24 1y ago
No, but it does reflect the dangers of incentivizing everyone to use a single region.
Most people (myself include) only choose it because its the cheapest. If multiple regions were the same price then there'd be less impact if one goes down.
- leptons 1y agoThe problems with us-east-1 have been apparent for a long time, many years. Once I started using us-east-1 long ago, and seeing the problems there, I moved everything to us-west-1 and stopped having those problems. EC2 instances were completely unreliable in us-east-1 (we were running hundreds to thousands at a time), not so in us-west-1. The error rates we were seeing were awful in us-east-1. A negligible cost difference shouldn't matter when your apps are unstable due to the region being problematic.
- AbstractH24 1y ago> A negligible cost difference shouldn't matter when your apps are unstable due to the region being problematic. agreed, but a sizable cohort of people don't have the foresight or incentives for think past their nose and clicking the cheapest option. So its on Amazon to incentivize what's best.
- leptons 1y agoPeople's lack of curiosity, enough to not even explore the other options, is not Amazon's problem.