I’ve seen EV’s characterized as phones on wheels before, and as an owner that seems apt. I envision a hobbyist community for old EV’s developing much in the same way there are groups that tinker with TRS-80s and Apple 2’s. Once support for a platform ends, someone will find a way to root it and then install such mods as seem cool or fun.

It was only the one AWS region that went down, us-east-1. Unfortunately that’s the big kahuna. But they’ve got regions and availability zones around the globe. The services that went down due to the outage need to get some cross-region redundancy happening, but that’s the kind of thing that’s never a priority until the moment you need it.