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An industrywide power crunch is changing how Amazon runs its e-commerce empire
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Fusion42 · 13 August 2026 · Fusion42 review
Amazon is restructuring its e-commerce cloud infrastructure under the project 'Region Flex' in response to power and data center capacity constraints, reducing reliance on major AWS hubs like Northern Virginia and Dublin by distributing workloads across more regions at smaller scales.
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Amazon's shift to distribute its e-commerce workloads across many AWS regions means you face new complexity managing hosting efficiency versus resilience. Your cloud infrastructure strategy must adapt quickly to power and capacity shortages becoming the real bottlenecks to growth.
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