Comment by keeganpoppen
13 hours ago
anecdotally (well, more "second-hand-ly i heard that..." it sounds like there were some carry-on effects on us-east-2 as a result of people migrating over from us-east-1, so, yeah... kinda hilarious how the multiple region / AZ thing is just so plainly a façade, but yet we all seem to just collectively believe in it as an article of faith in the Cloud Religion... or whatever...
It's no magic given the size of us-east-1 there is no spare capacity to absorb all the workloads
One of the SRE tricks is to reserve your capacity so when the cloud runs out of capacity you're still covered. It's expensive, but you don't want to get stuck without a server when the on-demand dries up.