Redundancy, but I don't know how easy AWS makes it to run say, a container, in two different regions. I think their load balancers can balance between regions but I'm not sure how well other services can do it.
What comes to mind is DNS based load balancing. You'd have a full stack running in each region, and users get routed to the one nearest them. I could see this working for something like Dropbox or an email service where users can be easily segmented.
You can do that or you can use their Global Accelerator thingy that gives you an anycast IP but technically they dont have an lb that spans regions (nor would you probably want one)
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Redundancy, but I don't know how easy AWS makes it to run say, a container, in two different regions. I think their load balancers can balance between regions but I'm not sure how well other services can do it.
What comes to mind is DNS based load balancing. You'd have a full stack running in each region, and users get routed to the one nearest them. I could see this working for something like Dropbox or an email service where users can be easily segmented.
You can do that or you can use their Global Accelerator thingy that gives you an anycast IP but technically they dont have an lb that spans regions (nor would you probably want one)
Yeah I think I was thinking of the Route 53 based region load balancing, not the load balancer products themselves.