Most all of the time wasting or hacky things like this there are just because people don't have time to improve things they scraped together to provide value somewhere.
Everyone at AWS ran around with their heads cut off back when there were 6 regions because everyone was so overworked or had to drop everything they were doing for a week because a new Xen bug was published to the email list and would go out of embargo at the end of the week. I can only imagine how insane it is now with ~20 regions to support.
Everyone at AWS ran around with their heads cut off back when there were 6 regions because everyone was so overworked or had to drop everything they were doing for a week because a new Xen bug was published to the email list and would go out of embargo at the end of the week. I can only imagine how insane it is now with ~20 regions to support.