I've been using AWS for years and this is the first I've ever heard of this.
All I can say is "WHAAAAAAT?!"
You've made me question my reality. Take an upvote for that alone.
All I can say is "WHAAAAAAT?!"
You've made me question my reality. Take an upvote for that alone.
An Availability Zone is represented by a region code followed by a letter identifier;
for example, us-east-1a. To ensure that resources are distributed across the Availability
Zones for a region, we independently map Availability Zones to identifiers for each
account. For example, your Availability Zone us-east-1a might not be the same location
as us-east-1a for another account. There's no way for you to coordinate Availability
Zones between accounts.
[0] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-reg...I myself was in the middle of a release when all this happened. "I'll just release this thing" I said, "will only take 20 minutes" I said....