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Well yes but it's entirely possible for it to be locally affected

IAM 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/regio...

Yeah 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

Gov Cloud is an entirely separate setup, you can't share anything across the two.

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