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		angstrom on June 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Cloud Is Down I would probably go with US-EAST-2 just because it's isolated from anything except perhaps a freak Tornado and better situated on the eastern US. Latency to/from there should be near optimal for most eastern US/Canada population.

thruhiker on June 3, 2019 [–]

One caveat with us-east-2 is that it appears to get new features after us-east-1 and us-west-2. You can view the service support by region here: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regio....

angstrom on June 6, 2019 | [–]

Fair point. It depends on what the project is.

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