I know this is missing the point a bit but, if people had multi region enabled for their services, they would not have been impacted. So the issue here was par

I know this is missing the point a bit but, if people had multi region enabled for their services, they would not have been impacted. So the issue here was part aws centralization, part services not being ready for failure. My company uses aws to run hundreds of serverless services and our infrastructure was not impacted despite half of it being on US region.