Michael Pavone @retrodev.com · Sep 24 us-east-1 is important in part because it was the original AWS zone, but it's also a reasonable compromise location for serving traffic for both the US and Europe. For another angle, here's a map of data centers in California. Note that we have about as many as SoCal despite pop./submarine cable gap
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All those cables that go into random parts of the coast continue on into Los Angeles, San Jose, Portland, and Seattle, which is where it’s easy to buy access to them. Historically in telecom centric buildings like One Wilshire or 55 S. Market, although I’ve lost track of the more recent ones.