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If this outage isn’t the catalyst to get the Amazon side of the house to finally move out of US-east, I don’t know what will be. Or at least be multi-region.

Although the cost to make all of Amazon commerce, logistics, and digital truly multi-region is probably an order of magnitude more than the impact of this outage.

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True. But let's be honest... this is neither the first such outage in US-east-1 nor the last. So I'd argue it's long past time for Amazon to pay the bill and go multi-region.

Last big e-commerce outage I can think of was Prime day years ago when Sable browned out. But that was non-AWS infrastructure. There was also the infamous s3 fat-finger; but I can’t think of a holiday shopping and delivery day with a massive outage.

I wonder if their system would allow them to move availability zones between regions. They could create new stealth AZs, move their stuff into them, then use those to start building a new region only they use.

But I suspect there are third part integrations that benefit from being on the same AZ as Amazon APIs. I’ve been having little convos all day about how I think the inter region pricing creates a perverse incentive that’s exacerbating the us-east-1 situation.

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