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Amazon’s Region Flex Shows Power Shortages Are Changing Cloud Architecture

Business Insider · 2026-09-03

Amazon is redistributing internal workloads across more AWS regions under Region Flex as electricity and data-center capacity constrain expansion.

Why it matters: Power scarcity is now influencing software architecture, not just where data centers are built.

Amazon is redistributing internal workloads across more AWS regions under Region Flex as electricity and data-center capacity constrain expansion.

Power scarcity is now influencing software architecture, not just where data centers are built.

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