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