[JCM9]

Yes, although unfortunately it’s not how AWS sold regions to customers. AWS folks consistently told customers that regions were independent and customers architected on that belief.

It was only when stuff started breaking that all this crap about “well actually stuff still relies on us-east-1” starts coming out.

[Agingcoder]

Yes - they told me quite specifically that until they launch their their sovereign cloud, the mothership will be around.