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Black pinstripe button-up baseball jersey with us-east-1 in orange baseball script across the chest

us-east-1

the jersey · $65

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Front of the jersey
Back of the jersey: plain pinstripe with a small techdebt neck tag

The us-east-1 Jersey

Black pinstripe button-up · orange script lettering · unisex fit
$65

A baseball jersey for the people who keep the internet running. Anyone who works in tech will get the joke on sight, and everyone else will just think it looks good.

Size: LSize guide
Size

Fits like a relaxed T-shirt. Buying as a gift? Choose the size of a T-shirt they already wear; between sizes, go up.

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Details

Lightweight button-up baseball jersey in black with thin white pinstripes. Six white buttons, short sleeves, V-neck. us-east-1 is printed in orange baseball script with a white edge and a shadow, the way team names are on real jerseys.

Size & fit

Unisex, relaxed. Measure across the chest of a T-shirt they like, and pick the closest.

Exact measurements will be listed here once the production blank is final.

Care

Wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low or hang dry. On failure, retry with exponential backoff.

What does “us-east-1” mean?

It’s the name of Amazon’s oldest and busiest cloud data center region, in northern Virginia. The longer story is below.

What’s us‑east‑1?

It’s the name of Amazon Web Services’ oldest and biggest cloud region: rooms full of servers in northern Virginia that a huge share of the internet’s apps and websites run on.

When us-east-1 has a bad day, apps everywhere go down with it, and the engineers who keep them running have a very long night. Every engineer knows the name. Wearing it is a bit like wearing a jersey for a team that keeps losing in the most spectacular way possible.

2006
the year it opened
Ashburn, VA
roughly where it lives
Oct 20, 2025
its last famous outage

techdebt status

The store’s status page. Engineers will understand.

us-east-1 jersey: operational taking orders soon

Components

us-east-1 jerseyTD-001
Operational
90 days ago45 days agolaunchedToday
rest & vestTD-008
Major outage: sold out
90 days ago45 days agoToday