Right, and the reason "everyone" has confidence in just waiting a bit for it to go back up without panicking and having to try to find an alternative is precisely because GitHub and AWS have on-call engineers that are alerted and immediately work on fixing it.

Of course, when a hospital’s IT systems go down, people do indeed have to endure it, but life does not always in fact go on [0]. Horses for courses, I guess.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/27/22696097/hospital-ransomw...