I feel obligated to point out that this is a very editorialized title, which is against site guidelines. Not... that I don't sympathize, just that it's perhaps a bit out of line even for providing context.
Over 200 services, 86 availability zones and 26 regions. We might as well post every 5 minutes if we post every time something on AWS goes down. And yes AWS is more dependent on us-east-1 but one of the outrages posts was for a minor outage in us-west-1.
and I'm averaging six nines uptime over the past year on a $5 KVM virtual machine hosted at a sketchy hosting company, but that doesn't mean something catastrophic can't or won't happen unexpectedly
note that I count the six nines as unplanned downtime, it's had less availability than that because I reboot it for a newer kernel and debian-stable system updates maybe every 4-5 months.
It was both us-west-1 and us-west-2, for 45 minutes or so. Was interesting for Auth0 customers, as they use us-west-2 as their primary, and us-west-1 is the failover location.
By analogy cars crash every few minutes in my city (Las Vegas), but I can’t conclude that indicates some inherent (or easily fixable) problem with the road infrastructure or the design of cars, or the skill of drivers. The frequent crashes rarely affect me.