On: AWS us-east-1 down

[ciguy]

It appears to be an outage in IAM which is trickling down to every service which relies on IAM auth.

[pliuchkin → ciguy]

But IAM is supposed to be Global, not us-east-1

[Androider → pliuchkin]

All the regions are equal, but some regions are more equal than others.

[paulddraper → pliuchkin]

In that it globally depends on us-east-1.

[otterley → paulddraper]

As I’ve said elsewhere, this is not accurate for existing IAM resources.