It’s fascinating to me people think their services are so important they can’t survive any downtime. Can we all admit that, while annoying, nothing really bad happened even when us-east-1 was down for almost half a working day?
That's a bit of a naive perspective. There are plenty of situations and industries where access being down has an impact far beyond inconvenience. For example, access to medical files for treatment, allergies and surgery. Or access to financial services.