True. But let's be honest... this is neither the first such outage in US-east-1 nor the last. So I'd argue it's long past time for Amazon to pay the bill and go multi-region.
But I suspect there are third part integrations that benefit from being on the same AZ as Amazon APIs. I’ve been having little convos all day about how I think the inter region pricing creates a perverse incentive that’s exacerbating the us-east-1 situation.