> Maybe this is the event to get everyone off of piling everything onto us-east-1 and hoping for the best, but the last few outages didn’t, so I don’t expect this one to, either.
Doesn't help either. us-east-1 hosts the internal control plane of AWS and a bunch of stuff is only available in us-east-1 at all - most importantly, Cloudfront, AWS ACM for Cloudfront and parts of IAM.
And the last is the one true big problem. When IAM has a sniffle, everything else collapses because literally everything else depends on IAM. If I were to guess IAM probably handles millions if not billions of requests a second because every action on every AWS service causes at least one request to IAM.
