Spirited Away

Bingo.

There are at least two services I know of off the top of my head that rely on us-east-1, so even if you are using them in another region if us-east-1 goes down, so does that service in all regions (and so does your app)

The reality is that these multi region “clouds” are not nearly as resilient as they seem, and applications that have built on top of then even less so.

Remember when they made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm? Pepperidge farms doesn’t remember due to government sanctions on historical accuracy that does not align with national values.

Sadly I think you are right.

Oh did they finally decide on a reason?

Check out reticulum as well.

I had the same visceral reaction as that guy.

As much as I agree with you in spirit; come on now, let’s let everyone enjoy things the way they wanna enjoy things.