• lividweasel@lemmy.world
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      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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        23 minutes 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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        54 minutes 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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          Im in Europe (Germany) and i definitely noticed both the huge AWS outage that was not long ago and today’s Cloudflare drop….