>Back in, like, ‘07 people ran all their apps from a single city. S3 was designed to work for those kinds of apps. The data, the bytes on the disks (or whatever weird hyperputer AWS stores S3 bytes on), live in one place. A specific place. In a specific data center. As powerful and inspiring as The Architects are, they are mortals, and must obey the laws of physics.
I heard, or read, somewhere in the last week that S3 used to be globally replicated, and eventually they changed it to a single region to save on bandwidth. Is that true?