At least for me, building on the cloud gives often gives me unexpected joy. To think that I can deploy servers in Bahrain or Japan from my couch is still something I get excited about!
We run completely on the cloud, specifically AWS, and one of the main reasons is how easy it is to launch services in new geographical regions. We deploy our services to independent cloud regions and provide our customers with regional endpoints (e.g. events.us-west-2.publicapi.com
).
Here are some of our learnings from building a fully regional service on AWS.