>> are not truly independent of each other
> Indeed. They are even on the same planet!
Clever bastard, aren't you.
>> please stop blaming the victim
> Excuse me?
"If you're affected by us-east-1 outages then you're not hosting in other regions and you're doing it wrong".
Except: You can be affected by this outage if you did everything right. You're putting blame on people being down for not being hosted in different regions when it would not help them. You've effectively shifted blame away from Amazon and onto the person who cannot control their uptime by doing what you said.