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us-east-1 · N. VirginiaBlack pinstripe jersey with us-east-1 in orange script us-west-1 · N. CaliforniaNavy pinstripe jersey with us-west-1 in gold script

Availability Zone Jerseys · F/W 26 · rc1

East vs. West

us-east-1 Jersey

$65

From the Availability Zone collection: baseball gear for the people who keep the internet running. Anyone in tech gets the joke on sight. Everyone else just sees good-looking baseball gear.

Team: us-east-1
Item: Jersey
Size: LFit

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

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Size & fit

Jerseys are unisex with a relaxed fit. Caps are one size with an adjustable strap. Exact measurements will be listed here once the production blanks are final.

Care

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

What do the names mean?

They’re Amazon’s cloud regions: data centers that a big share of the internet runs on. The longer story is below.

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What are us‑east‑1 and us‑west‑1?

They’re two of Amazon Web Services’ cloud regions: buildings full of servers that a huge share of the internet’s apps and websites run on.

us-east-1, in northern Virginia, is the oldest and biggest. When it has a bad day, apps everywhere go down with it, and every engineer knows the name. us-west-1, in northern California, is the quieter one across the country. Pick your side.

us-east-1
N. Virginia · opened 2006 · famous outage Oct 20, 2025
us-west-1
N. California · opened 2009 · keeps a lower profile

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