Lol us-east-1 already went down for a day back in 2017 when an intern accidentally took down the whole DC. We could call him “Godzilla”
Source:
my startup (stupidly) hosted our entire infra in us-east-1 at the time. Was a …tough day
us-east-1 is a great place to test your application resiliency :) it's like they threw in chaosmonkey for free!
It's funny because AWS, at least for the services I knew of when I was there, did rolling deploys to each region over several days. us-east-1 was always the final day because it was the biggest region, so you'd think it'd the safest region since everything getting deployed was well-tested. But while I was there I remember at least 2 COEs where the root cause was basically, "us-east-1 had some hacky legacy configuration that no other region has and that wasn't known/accounted for."
sounds like an easy day to me, like when power goes out, nothing to do anyway, esp. when the entire infra is there.
Some of the regions are so critical for AWS that them going down will bring down most of the control plane :P
Water and fire already had their way, I suspect tornado and a landslide are next.