It's the length of the outage that's striking. AWS us-east-1 has had a few serious outages in the last ~decade, but IIRC none took near 14 hours to resolve.
The horrible us-east-1 S3 outage of 2017[1] was around 5 hours.
The horrible us-east-1 S3 outage of 2017[1] was around 5 hours.
The more you have, the faster the backlog grows in case of an outage, so you need longer to process it all once the system comes back online.