Why not us-east-2 if you need east coast? Even so, I’m almost as far as I can be (in America) from us-west-1 and us-west-2. The difference in speed is barely perceptible when running services out west. In fact, I think my Lightsail PiHole is out there.

As I said, I’m not aware of any historical issues at the other DCs. 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Just my own theory, but my observations are that us-east-1 is often a little cheaper than other regions, plus they have access to the latest resource types.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Thought the prices were identical? I was in DevOps at my last company and while I hardly touched AWS, there was no discussion of variable pricing.

      • ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Compare Virginia with California. This chart is specifically for EC2, but I believe the trend extends to other resources. The difference are larger when you start looking outside the US. And, if you weren’t aware, AWS also offers reserve and spot EC2 instances for savings relative to on-demand instances.

        • chaospatterns@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 days ago

          N. California as a region can’t grow and it’s priced accordingly. Instead, compare US East (Ohio) or US West (Oregon) for a region that’s price competitive. A lot of Amazon internal stuff was starting to move to US East (Ohio) because it was geographically close, but a lot less problematic.