When a Startup Should Not Go Multi-Region

1. Where the Request Comes From

A second region is almost never requested as a design decision. It arrives attached to something else, and identifying which gives you the real question.

• An outage happened. The request is emotional and the timing is poor, which does not make it wrong. It does mean the response should be an analysis of what actually failed rather than a purchase.
• A customer asked. Sometimes a real contractual requirement, more often a questionnaire item that a credible answer about availability also satisfies.
• **A compliance checkbox