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It was only the one AWS region that went down, us-east-1. Unfortunately that's the big kahuna. But they've got regions and availability zones around the globe. The services that went down due to the outage need to get some cross-region redundancy happening, but that's the kind of thing that's never a priority until the moment you need it.
Even the places that did have redundancy - didn't have actually tested failovers.
Source: working at a place hosted in multiple locations. Didn't mean shit. Somebody, if not many somebody's, is definitely getting fired when the smoke clears.