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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by quaintdev on Monday October 20, 2025 @11:50AM (#45645284)
That would be circular dependency.
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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by croes on Monday October 20, 2025 @01:15PM (#45646443)
And?
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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by AnIrishDuck on Monday October 20, 2025 @11:47PM (#45652278)
The grid actually already has a fair number of (non-software) circular dependencies. This is why they have black start [1] procedures and run drills of those procedures. Or should, at least; there have been high profile outages recently that have exposed holes in these plans [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_start 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackou...

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