Yeah, if you're a major business and don't have geographic redundancy for your service, you need to rework your BCDR plan.

What's the general plan of action when a company's base region shits the bed?

Keep dormant mirrored resources in other regions?

I presumed the draw of us-east-1 was its lower cost, so if any solutions involve spending slightly more money, I'm not surprised high profile companies put all their eggs in one basket.

I love the "git gud" response. Sacred cashcows?

Netflix did encounter issues. I couldn't access it yesterday at noon EST. And I wasn't alone, judging by Downdetector.ca