On the one hand it's an incentive to shift away to smaller self management where you don't need AWS e.g as an individual I just run a single DigitalOcean VPS. But on the other hand if you're a large business the evaluation process is basically, can I tolerate this kind of incident once in a while versus the massive operational cost of doing it myself. It's really going to be a case by case study of who stays, who moves and who tries some multicloud failover. It's not one of those situations where you can blanket just say oh this is terrible, stupid, should never happen, let's get off AWS. This is the slow build up of dependency on something people value. That's not going to change quickly. It might never change. The too big to fail mantra of banks applies. What happens next is essentially very anticlimactic which is to say, nothing.

multi-region AWS would have been adequate for this outage.