> This suggests to me that running distributed databases in multiple AZ's has almost no latency penalty (e.g. you won't even paying eventual consistency / repli

> This suggests to me that running distributed databases in multiple AZ's has almost no latency penalty (e.g. you won't even paying eventual consistency / replication lag taxes that you might think are a danger). Yes, Hamilton points that out in his talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIQETrFC_SQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIQETrFC_SQ