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Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by JCM9 on Monday October 20, 2025 @06:54AM (#45642468)
It’s not that simple. The bit AWS doesn’t talk much about publicly (but will privately if you really push them) is that there’s core dependencies behind the scenes on us-east-1 for running AWS itself. When us-east-1 goes down the blast radius has often impacted things running in other regions.

It impacts AWS internally too. For example rather ironically it looks like the outage took out AWS’s support systems so folks couldn’t contact support to get help.

Unfortunately it’s not as simple as just deploying in multiple regions with some failover load balancing.

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Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by shawabawa3 on Monday October 20, 2025 @07:46AM (#45642826)
our eu-central-1 services had zero disruption during this incident, the only impact was that if we _had_ had any issues we couldn't log in to the AWS console to fix them

So moving stuff out of us-east-1 absolutely does help

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Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by JCM9 on Monday October 20, 2025 @08:12AM (#45642999)
Sure it helps. Folks just saying there’s lots of examples where you still get hit by the blast radius of a us-east-1 issue even if you’re using other regions.
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Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by everfrustrated on Monday October 20, 2025 @08:46AM (#45643282)
There have been region-specific console pages for a number of years now.
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