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		wmf on Oct 17, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Now Open – AWS US East (Ohio) Region If there's confusion about the concept of regions, it seems to be coming from Amazon themselves. They couldn't just call it the Ohio region?

bdcravens on Oct 17, 2016 [–]

Is that really an issue? Sometimes I get the number suffixes confused (like us-west-1 and us-west-2). Additionally, would you refer to the Sydney region or the New South Wales region?

cperciva on Oct 18, 2016 | [–]

For people from outside of North America, "us-east-2" is far more informative than "Ohio".

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