Folks, I may be reading things different, however I've been under the impression that objects and buckets in us-east do NOT get replicated automatically to us-west... However, reading the documentation, I see 2 conflicting statements:
From http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ :
Objects stored in a Region never leave the Region unless you transfer them out. For example, objects stored in the EU (Ireland) Region never leave the EU.
However, in http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ :
s3.amazonaws.com endpoint — Amazon S3 automatically routes requests to facilities in Northern Virginia or the Pacific Northwest using network maps.
Objects stored in US Standard are replicated across multiple datacenters in the Pacific Northwest and N. Virginia, and if you access S3 with the URL endpoint that is not region specific then requests will be routed to the closest datacenter (based on our geo-ip information).
So, my question is, which is it? Do objects get automatically copied? Or do we copy objects manually between regions, then use the s3.amazonaws.com endpoint?
Thanks!