GOOD MORNING. Today's massive outages nicely illustrate which of your favorite internet things are secretly Amazon-dependent. Specifically on US-EAST-1 Region, which woke up with Main Character Syndrome. Result? Massive outages. Sure, Amazon has regions. But US-EAST-1 is the legacy/default for a pile of services...and other Global Amazon services also depended on it. So when there was trouble...it was quickly everywhere. Hyperscalers rule *almost* everything around us. And this is absolutely bad news for all sorts of resiliency. Amazon sez: root cause = DNS resolution with DynamoDB... which a ton depends on. They say they are mostly mitigated & have a pile of backlog to clear. But this is a great moment to think about just how many eggs that matter are in one basket... https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status