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by bananapub 243 days ago
those sentences aren't logically connected - the outage this post is about is mostly confined to `us-east-1`, anyone who wanted to build a reliable system on top of AWS would do so across multiple regions, including Amazon itself.

`us-east-1` is unfortunately special in some ways but not in ways that should affect well-designed serving systems in other regions.