Hi everyone! I'm an IT reporter named Miranda, and I'm trying to find out if the recent outage on Monday had any effect on GovCloud users. Specifically, I'm interested in knowing whether they experienced any issues and how severe those issues might have been. If anyone has insights or information on this topic, I'd appreciate it. Feel free to share anything anonymously if you'd prefer, or we can chat on Signal for extra privacy. Thanks so much!
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Nope, the GovCloud service wasn't affected at all. They operate with a separate control plane and are physically located in completely different areas than the commercial regions like us-east-1. So, there wasn't any impact from the outage.
Short answer: No. The outage was specific to the us-east-1 commercial region. While the IAM global control plane was impacted there, GovCloud has its own dedicated control plane, which means it wasn't affected. However, there could be indirect impacts if a third-party service had issues due to the outage, affecting GovCloud users indirectly.
Thanks for clarifying! I had heard some federal employees might have trouble logging into GovCloud. Is that totally off the mark?
That's good to know! So basically, even though GovCloud still falls under the US-East and US-West regions, it's a distinct entity from us-east-1?