AWS and the Myth of Regional Independence
AWS has long sold the idea of regional independence, a cloud so resilient that no single outage could take it down. Reality keeps proving otherwise. Every time us-east-1 coughs, half the internet catches it. The truth is simple: AWS’s global control plane still lives in one place, and when it stumbles, everything feels it. This piece looks at why that happens, how “multi-region” isn’t what you think it is, and why real decentralization still isn’t in Amazon’s playbook.