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Amazon systems are down nationwide
(hexbear.net)
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this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2025
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Wait, there isn't real redundancy??
It’s mostly the early AWS services that were created before AWS had the concept of regions.
Certain services e.g. IAM (who/what can access what and how) operate out of us-east-1. If your app is hosted in eu-west-1 but needs to assume an IAM profile to authenticate with S3 to read/write data, you’re fucked until IAM is back online.
S3 has regional buckets but the control plane effectively operates out of us-east-1.
You also need to factor in us-east-1 being the default in most tutorials and libraries, and that a lot of these companies are US based so will stick with that default and not bother with multi-region tenancy because it’s difficult to justify the expense.
This is a flagrant violation of GDPR, but it's all cool because without it there would be no internet.
I have only a vague idea of what that means.
if not ... How is most of internet relying on Amazon???
We love a monopoly
I don't think it's accurate to call or a monopoly with only 30% market share. Azure has 20% Google has 13%