a) Don't deploy prod to us-east-1 b) Don't stick to a single region/ AZ. Cross-region/AZ failures are quite rare c) If AWS goes down a huge portion of the int

a) Don't deploy prod to us-east-1 b) Don't stick to a single region/ AZ. Cross-region/AZ failures are quite rare c) If AWS goes down a huge portion of the internet is fucked. Customer expectations are totally different. When 90% of the internet isn't loading images no one's coming to you to complain. d) The fire is elsewhere. Someone else is on it. At worst we spend some time trying to work around it, at best we work on other things while we wait.