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		bcrosby95 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 Global replication is hard and if they weren't designed with that in mind its probably a whole lot of work.

ineedasername 6 months ago [–]

I thought part of the point of using AWS was that such things were pretty much turnkey?\

DevelopingElk 6 months ago | [–]

Mostly AWS relies on each region being its own isolated copy of each service. It gets tricky when you have globalized services like IAM. AWS tries to keep those to a minimum.

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