It’s even worse than that - us-east-1 is so overloaded, and they have roughly 5+ outages per year on different services. They don’t publish outage numbers so it’s hard to tell.
At this point, being in any other region cuts your disaster exposure dramatically
We don’t deploy to us-east but still so many of our API partners and 3rd party services were down a large chunk of the service was effectively down. Including stuff like many dev tools
You know that’s not true, is-east-1 last one was 2 years ago? But other services have bad days and foundational one drag others a long