1. AWS has no cross-regional or cross-zonal data plane[1] dependencies. Customers might couple them, in violation of best practices, but AWS itself does not. It's strictly forbidden.
2. That article you linked to does not support your claim. That is a report of a single-zone incident impacting us-east-1 only. Five other AZs in the same region were still fully operational.
[1] These are not the same as control plane dependencies: you might not be able to make certain mutations, but everything should still work in the steady state.
2. That article you linked to does not support your claim. That is a report of a single-zone incident impacting us-east-1 only. Five other AZs in the same region were still fully operational.
[1] These are not the same as control plane dependencies: you might not be able to make certain mutations, but everything should still work in the steady state.