A system comprising: a plurality of data centers configured such that region-specific requests for services corresponding to a particular region may be satisfied by any of the plurality of data centers (301, 302, 303, 304, 305), the plurality of data centers including at least a first, second and third data center (301, 302, 303); wherein the first data center is configured to perform load balancing on a plurality of region-specific requests corresponding to the particular region and received by the first data center by performing at least the following: for at least some of the region-specific requests received by the first data center, an act of the first data center determining that the region-specific requests are to be processed by the second data center wherein for at least some of the plurality of region-specific requests corresponding to the particular region and received by the first data center, the first data center is further configured to perform the following: an act of forwarding the region-specific request to the third data center for reflection to the second data center; wherein each of the first, second and third data centers (301, 302, 303) have been verified to operate within a latency envelope in which latency in communicating between any of the data centers within the latency envelope is verified to be below a particular threshold. a plurality of data centers configured such that region-specific requests for services corresponding to a particular region may be satisfied by any of the plurality of data centers (301, 302, 303, 304, 305), the plurality of data centers including at least a first, second and third data center (301, 302, 303); wherein the first data center is configured to perform load balancing on a plurality of region-specific requests corresponding to the particular region and received by the first data center by performing at least the following: for at least some of the region-specific requests received by the first data center, an act of the first data center determining that the region-specific requests are to be processed by the second data center wherein for at least some of the plurality of region-specific requests corresponding to the particular region and received by the first data center, the first data center is further configured to perform the following: an act of forwarding the region-specific request to the third data center for reflection to the second data center; wherein each of the first, second and third data centers (301, 302, 303) have been verified to operate within a latency envelope in which latency in communicating between any of the data centers within the latency envelope is verified to be below a particular threshold. for at least some of the region-specific requests received by the first data center, an act of the first data center determining that the region-specific requests are to be processed by the second data center wherein for at least some of the plurality of region-specific requests corresponding to the particular region and received by the first data center, the first data center is further configured to perform the following: an act of forwarding the region-specific request to the third data center for reflection to the second data center; wherein each of the first, second and third data centers (301, 302, 303) have been verified to operate within a latency envelope in which latency in communicating between any of the data centers within the latency envelope is verified to be below a particular threshold. an act of forwarding the region-specific request to the third data center for reflection to the second data center; wherein each of the first, second and third data centers (301, 302, 303) have been verified to operate within a latency envelope in which latency in communicating between any of the data centers within the latency envelope is verified to be below a particular threshold.