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Everyone was convinced to move everything to "The Cloud" to avoid single points of failure. And then everyone placed everything in us-east-1/East US. So now the entire internet falls over when a cardinal farts in Northern Virginia.
That’s AWS.
That's why I wrote "us-east-1/East US", the "East US" part is Azure in Northern Virginia.