Re:Major AWS Outage Happening
by Nextgrid on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:24AM
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Not sure why this is downvoted - this is absolutely correct.
A lot of AWS services under the hood depend on others, and especially us-east-1 is often used for things that require strong consistency like AWS console logins/etc (where you absolutely don't want a changed password or revoked session to remain valid in other regions because of eventual consistency).
A lot of AWS services under the hood depend on others, and especially us-east-1 is often used for things that require strong consistency like AWS console logins/etc (where you absolutely don't want a changed password or revoked session to remain valid in other regions because of eventual consistency).