Ironically, these also make you a prime acquisition target (because the product idea rocks), which renders your long-term future unclear.

How do your investors feel about this / what's your exit plan?

edit: those regions are the same because it's the easiest set of cities to roll this out in :)

Enterprise workloads are far more conservative than I am, those guys spend decades running the same servers. It's why they can focus on sales and customer success and rake in money, which is what actually puts food on the table for their kids.

For example in the Paris (eu-west-3) region, their availability zones are operated on hardware owned and managed by Telehouse, Interxion and Equinix.

I just assumed if they're creating their own chips, they're probably creating their own servers, datacenters, networks, etc. but I guess I shouldn't jump to conclusions.

Networks are crazy too, especially between continents, ownership of undersea cables is fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable

I'm guessing it's likely that this solution was adopted to quickly expand to a lot of countries due to data location and privacy questions being raised.