I guess you did not have any service running on aws winter 2021? Does not really matter which region, with certain services you could get lucky but basically everything depending on fresh iam creds was down

And if netflix/disney/slack/ring amazon themself can not do it, with a multiple with the ressources i have access to, good luck to you.

there are also times where your company might rely on a single aws product, and it might simply break an integration(aws iot mqtt ->sqs for example) took them 2 days to fix