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AWS randomly assigns AZ names differently across accounts(docs.aws.amazon.com)
4 points by craigkerstiens 13 hours ago | 4 comments
awsanswers 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To prevent the effect of people picking the first zone in the list to launch resources into

fhke 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Exactly this. If they didn’t do this, us-east-1a would be the biggest single point of failure the world has ever seen.

gladiatr72 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]
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