Is the S3 “US Standard” region the same as “us-east-1” in EC2?

Question

I am planning on running a script located on an EC2 instance in us-east-1d.

The script basically pulls in images from a few different places and will th

Answer 1

Just to keep it really clear, from official AWS S3 FAQ: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/

Q. Wasn’t there a US Standard region?

We renamed the US Standard Region to US East (Northern Virginia) Region to be consistent with AWS regional naming conventions. There is no change to the endpoint and you do not need to make any changes to your application.

So yes, us-east-1 is the same.