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Lots of big names down at once (a whole page), what's happening?

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[–] BozeKnoflook@lemmy.world 77 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

I suspect the big problem is that IAM is affected and it is not decentralized, which is causing other systems worldwide (even outside of AWS' us-east-1 location) which rely on IAM in us-east-1 to also fail. I'm having trouble even logging into the AWS console to check on my European servers.

Edit: IAM is the main authentication method. So AWS may still be up and running fine in other locations around the world; but if you can't connect to them because AWS' internal authentication is all fucked up...

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 days ago

Sounds reasonable, the first errors I encountered were all 403.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Butbutbut AWS reliability and many regions and zones means this can't happen! ;-)