It is absolutely ridiculous that it took them this long to do this. It should have been available on the first day there were different regions.

The AWS strategy is to release the bare minimum and then announce little fixes as if they were new products. It's gotten to the point where they release a product in one region, and then later announce availability in other regions with almost as much fanfare.

It detracts from the interesting work AWS is actually doing, I think, when they crowd it out with this stuff. But we should do our bit by not upvoting their sillier announcements...