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> Did us-east-1 go down because of hurricane sandy?

No, but I was at a company with all the production services in Reston, VA during that storm, and we would have been pretty screwed if Sandy made landfall in the DC area instead of continuing north.

Sandy's flooding in NYC wasn't great for some of the datacenters there, I seem to recall some having trouble, but most were fine.

BGP and DNS are certainly much better at causing disruption, and especially global disruption though.