Actual multi-region replication is hard and forces you to think about complicated things like the CAP theorem/etc. It's easier to pretend AWS magically solves that problem for you.
Which is actually totally fine for the vast majority of things, otherwise there would be actual commercial pressures to make sure systems are resilient to such outages.
Which is actually totally fine for the vast majority of things, otherwise there would be actual commercial pressures to make sure systems are resilient to such outages.