You only think it's soft because nothing in your life relies on it. For the companies who were hosted there it was a pretty big deal.

Imagine the chaos that a strike on us-east-1 would cause. Failover management for all of AWS is centrally located in Virginia, redundancies would not activate.

A lot of commerce would come to a grinding halt. Many banks and credit exchanges would just stop working for weeks, to say nothing for the plethora of businesses who do not have redundant systems.

Yeah, it'll be like Luigi Mangione. Nobody likes Bezos.