alt Hacker NewsIt's always East 1... Jokes aside I don't understand how often east-1 is taken down compared to other regions. Like it should be pretty similar to other regions architecture wise.
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bandrami • today at 1:51 AM
It's the oldest regional system and has some structural importance (e.g. the internal CA resides there I think)
JimDabell • today at 1:40 AM
Amusingly:
> AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong
> us-east-1 is no longer a merrily burning dumpster fire of sadness and regret.
— https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in-2025-the-stuff-you...
Otherwise a good article!
Isn't east one the "core" datacenter and also the oldest? I'd imagine it has more load than the other regions and also has more tech debt and architectural / engineering debt because they had less experience when they built it. Also iirc some services rely on east-1 as a single point of failure for configuration (like IAM or some S3 stuff?)