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IAM is a global service. So it kind of makes sense that all regions would be affected by an outage.
by bythe4mile 6y ago
IAM is a global service. So it kind of makes sense that all regions would be affected by an outage.
- BillinghamJ 6y agoWell yes but it's entirely possible for it to be locally affected
- bythe4mile 6y agoIAM is seems to be run out of North Virginia (other than Gov Cloud)[0]. However they probably may be doing some magic under the covers to reduce latency across the globe. It would also explain why GovCloud isnt affected. [0] - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/#AWS_Identity_and_Access_Management_.28IAM.29 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regio...
- BillinghamJ 6y agoYeah certainly the existence of credentials etc must be replicated to deal with cross-region connectivity issues etc. - which I guess explains why authentication is still working fine GovCloud I believe is technically separated in this regard, I don't think IAM credentials can operate across partitions. Though it does seem to be possible to link the existence of a standard AWS account with GovCloud, the same is not true of the China partition
- ArchOversight 6y agoGov Cloud is an entirely separate setup, you can't share anything across the two.