It has been a very, very long time since AWS had a simultaneous failure across multiple regions. Even customers impacted by the loss of Route 53 control plane functionality in last month’s us-east-1 were able to gracefully fail over to a backup region if they configured failover records in advance, had Application Recovery Controller set up, or fronted their APIs or websites with Global Accelerator.

Customers survive incidents on a daily basis by failing over across regions (even in the absence of an AWS regional failure, they can fail due to a bad deployment or other cause). The reason you don’t hear about it is because it works.