phcorcoran

us-east-1 was (one of?) the first region for AWS and a lot of their systems don’t respond super well if that region has issues. AWS is also the backbone of a lot of the internet

No no, you’re thinking of circumvallation. This is about sailing a ship all around the Earth.

If you are happy with Debian, I’d say stay with it. I have tried many distros but I like Debian and return to it for most of my devices. Sometimes Debian will have older versions of software if you use stable, I don’t really mind personally