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Availability zones are randomized per accounts; my us-east-1a might be the same as your us-east-1b. This is presumably done to stop everyone putting things int
by DrStalker 11y ago
Availability zones are randomized per accounts; my us-east-1a might be the same as your us-east-1b.
This is presumably done to stop everyone putting things into the same AZ by just choosing the first one in the list.
There is some more detail here: http://alestic.com/2009/07/ec2-availability-zones http://alestic.com/2009/07/ec2-availability-zones
- vosper 11y agoThat's true, but a latency based test should still let you figure out which zone you need to run in. But everyone would need to do the test for themselves.