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...