When us-east-1 goes down, half the internet goes down with it. Customers call and complain about downtime, I can just vaguely point at everything being on fire

When us-east-1 goes down, half the internet goes down with it. Customers call and complain about downtime, I can just vaguely point at everything being on fire from Facebook to Instagram to online banking sites. They get it. When the self-hosted server fries itself, I'm on the hook for fixing it ASAP.