[theherk]

Trouble is one can't fully escape us-east-1. Many services are centralized there like: S3, Organizations, Route53, Cloudfront, etc. It is THE main region, hence suffering the most outages, and more importantly, the most troubling outages.

[dangoodmanUT]

This is not true. There are a FEW high-level ones that have their dashboards there, but there's a reason you log into region-specific dashboards