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## [A Regional Control-Plane Failure Took a Payments API Offline](/incidents/post/single-region-payments-api-regional-outage)

-   Sev1
-   A few hours
-   [Reliability](/incidents/categories/reliability)
-   [Architecture](/incidents/categories/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.

[#Postmortem](/incidents/tags/postmortem)[#AWS](/incidents/tags/aws)[#Multi Region](/incidents/tags/multi-region)+3 tags

[Read Postmortem](/incidents/post/single-region-payments-api-regional-outage)