IAM is eventually consistent. And they do a lot of derivations of hashing off an original signature and distributing individual, bespoke versions to services in different regions to limit the blast radius of a compromised credential.
If you go to an AWS event in the future, the name of the chalk talk was "The Life of an IAM Policy"
If you go to an AWS event in the future, the name of the chalk talk was "The Life of an IAM Policy"