> Amazon seeks to avoid common-mode failures between AZs (and thus regions). there is a distinction between azs within a region vs azs in different regions. th

> Amazon seeks to avoid common-mode failures between AZs (and thus regions). there is a distinction between azs within a region vs azs in different regions. the overwhelming majority of services are offered regionally and provide slas at that level. services are expected to have entirely independent infrastructure for each region, and cross-regional/global services are built to scope down online cross regional dependencies as much as possible. the specific example brought up (cross regional sts) is wrong in the sense that sts is fully regionalized as evidenced by the overwhelming number of aws services that leverage sts not having a global meltdown. but as others mentioned in a lot of ways it’s even worse because customers are opted into the centralized endpoint implicitly.