I wonder if it'll be a more useful course than the one we had when Crowdstrike broke everything, or the many times when AWS US-East-1 has fallen over taking down many popular services.

The lesson most people learn from this sort of outage is that things bounce back afterwards, and the risk is minimal enough that a day out of every few years isn't enough of a problem to pay more.

especially if everyone else is also down with you

at least when us-east-1 goes down, Amazon stock prices go up (outages => stockholders remember that aws exists).