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A Regional Control-Plane Failure Took a Payments API Offline
- Sev1
- A few hours
- Reliability
- Architecture
- 08 Sept 2026
A money-movement API ran in one AWS region for years. A regional control-plane incident took it offline for hours with nowhere to fail over to. The fix was idempotency first, then a second region.