• lividweasel@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    My understanding is that the zone handles lots of the core functions of AWS, such as authentication, which is why so much was affected by the recent outage

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      12 days ago

      One of the most important functions is that it is the fallback management server. As well as the default server.

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      12 days ago

      Then why i didn’t had any problems here in europe? I wouldn’t have noticed without everyone shouting it

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        12 days ago

        Maybe you just weren’t dealing with any services that were hosted on AWS? It wasn’t the entire internet that was down