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List of AWS us-east-1 differences, edge cases, specialties, etc
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What makes us-east-1 special?

Account:

  • Root user login is tied to us-east-1 (during a us-east-1 outage, root user logins were broken) link

CloudFront:

  • ACM certs must exist in us-east-1 for CloudFront to use them link
  • Lambda functions used for Lambda@Edge must be deployed in us-east-1 link
  • Control plane is only available in us-east-1 link

CloudTrial:

  • For most global services, events are logged as occurring in us-east-1 link

CloudWatch:

  • CloudWatch Billing metric data is stored in the US East (N. Virginia) Region and represents worldwide charges" link

IAM:

  • Control plane is only available in us-east-1 link

Route53

  • Control plane is only available in us-east-1 link
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Nice find, added to the list

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