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AN INDUSTRYWIDE POWER CRUNCH IS CHANGING HOW AMAZON RUNS ITS E-COMMERCE EMPIRE

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Amazon is redistributing parts of its e-commerce infrastructure across more AWS regions under an internal effort called Region Flex, partly because power and data center capacity have become increasingly constrained in major hubs. The project includes more than 100 software migrations and illustrates how electricity availability is beginning to influence application architecture and cloud-region strategy.