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Re:AWS Frankfurt incident by mercora on Friday June 11, 2021 @03:55AM (#27470483)
note that every AZ assignment is mapped randomly for each account [0];

"To ensure that resources are distributed across the Availability Zones for a Region, we independently map Availability Zones to names for each account.".

my eu-central-1a is not necessarily yours.

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-wit...

Re:AWS Frankfurt incident by jen20 on Saturday June 12, 2021 @10:15AM (#27484653)
This is true, but there is a consistent identifier cross account (likely to make it possible to build multi-account architectures without having to measure network latency between zones manually) - this is the AZ ID instead of the AZ Name [1].

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-wit...