Sure it was, you just needed to login to the console via a different regional endpoint. No problems accessing systems from ap-southeast-2 for us during this entire event, just couldn’t access the management planes that are hosted exclusively in us-east-1.
Like the other poster said, you need to use a different region. The default region (of course) sends you to us-east-1
i don't think any method of auth was working for accessing the AWS console