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I'm surprised how transparent this is, I can find Amazon often a bit opaque when dealing with issues.

I've found them to be very opaque in most contexts, but for major outages (which have been rare), they do have a history of solid postmortems.

The public postmortem from the big DynamoDB outage in 2015(?) is a great example I think: https://aws.amazon.com/message/5467D2/

They have no choice in this situation.

CEO's all over the world just realized that they can't only depend on S3, and they might have to double up on their infrastructure and have a parallel env. on Azure or Google as well.

Not necessarily - our infra's hosted on us-west-2 and we had no downtime.

So while it is perhaps necessary to be multi-regional in Amazon, you wouldn't necessarily have to go multi-provider.

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