Lots of AWS’s control surfaces are in us-east-1, and (not calling out any specific instances here) sometimes what’s call an “AWS outage” especially regarding us-east-1, is actually a limitation on accessing those control surfaces, ie, making changes to assets that are actually hosted elsewhere.

In such cases the services continue to operate as-is despite problems in us-east-1.

Not saying that’s not a problem, just, clarifying the scope.