It does, but not for nefarious reasons -- it (until the more recent history) the cheapest region in the world for AWS -- it was only right before Oregon rolled out that Ireland, US-EAST and US-WEST-2 all became the same price point, but for the 4 years prior to that, it was always the cheapest so that is where most customers rolled out most of their infra.
Now that the prices has normalized I think the load is distributing more evenly, but for historical reasons I think that region sees a lot more churn (starting/stopping/deploying/etc.) -- just more grinding on the hardware at that region that others.
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It does, but not for nefarious reasons -- it (until the more recent history) the cheapest region in the world for AWS -- it was only right before Oregon rolled out that Ireland, US-EAST and US-WEST-2 all became the same price point, but for the 4 years prior to that, it was always the cheapest so that is where most customers rolled out most of their infra.
Now that the prices has normalized I think the load is distributing more evenly, but for historical reasons I think that region sees a lot more churn (starting/stopping/deploying/etc.) -- just more grinding on the hardware at that region that others.