All countries are more expensive than the US, but many US regions are the same (...

		everfrustrated 66 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 All countries are more expensive than the US, but many US regions are the same (cheapest) price. (eg Ohio, Oregon). us-east-1 is more a legacy of it being the first region so by virtue of being the default region for the longest time most customers built on it.