4 points | by craigkerstiens 12 hours ago
4 comments
To prevent the effect of people picking the first zone in the list to launch resources into
Exactly this. If they didn’t do this, us-east-1a would be the biggest single point of failure the world has ever seen.
Yeah. There is an api call that shows the mapping between a region's az names and the static az id's. I wasn't an early adopter but encountered the random az assignment in 2010.
To prevent the effect of people picking the first zone in the list to launch resources into
Exactly this. If they didn’t do this, us-east-1a would be the biggest single point of failure the world has ever seen.
Yeah. There is an api call that shows the mapping between a region's az names and the static az id's. I wasn't an early adopter but encountered the random az assignment in 2010.