On the first point, provisioning speed is a longstanding issue that the team wants to optimize. On the second point, if the checkpoint is not too big, users typically use a fixed-region bucket. Implementing a 'region-appropriate bucket' for checkpoints may require additional considerations, such as handling the migration of checkpoints when regions change. You can also explore Cloudflare's zero-egress storage, R2, although there may be egress charges when writing from a different cloud provider to R2.