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I saw this when one of my jobs failed for a very weird reason. Then an old friend messaged me about it. Every time this happens we talk about going multi-region, then it kind of gets put on the back burner.

Other thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36315300

What a surprise it's US-EAST-1 again...

Even the health dashboard is down now. Its spreading to other regions apparently.

Apparently Alexa is down on the east coast, but not the west coast. Its also reported that Roombas and Ring devices are broken on the east coast.

> Alexa is down on the east coast, but not the west coast

This is implausible to me: I'm on the west coast and my Alexa stuff wasn't working. Moreover, almost all Alexa devices in the US likely use us-east-1. This was true and hard-to-change as of a couple years ago.

FWIW Mine was working as was a peer who works @ AWS.

It may have to do with what you tried. For me the most basic thing, asking for the time, didn't fail, but more involved applications like music and smart-home (lighting control) did.

AWS Is Down