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Design Amazon's Global Payments Infrastructure — multi-region financial consistency.

The multi-region financial-consistency problem: how a payment system maintains strong consistency across regions while still meeting real-time payment latency requirements, how regulatory requirements in different jurisdictions constrain where data can physically be stored, and how currency conversion and settlement work across markets.

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