"Stops billing" makes it sound generous. If those regions can't run customer apps, not charging for them is just the minimum.

IDK your S3 data may be fine, they're still incurring the cost to store it on those drives - even if they're buried in rubble /s

	▲	essefjo 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There is already a S3 storage class for that: Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
	▲	jabiko 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Also you have to remember the basics of statuspage messages: Its always just elevated error rates. Even when the error rate is elevated to 100%. "We are observing elevated error rates when accessing objects stored in the affected region. Impacted customers may experience increased latency or intermittent failures while retrieving debris adjacent data." /s