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		WrtCdEvrydy on Nov 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards... us-east-1 is the zone with highest load and most new services are tested there first. rumor has it, some of the older hardware is moved there and that's why prices are a little cheaper but I have not been able to confirm that.

chizhik-pyzhik on Nov 25, 2020 | [–]

Not so much older hardware is moved there as it's just the oldest region with the most baggage

dodobirdlord on Nov 26, 2020 | [–]

It’s not that the oldest hardware is moved there, it’s just that the oldest hardware was there to begin with. There are probably still first-generation EC2 instances running in us-east-1 on their original platforms.

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