Sydney storm causes power outage and brings down AWS AZ

Severe weather in Sydney appears to have been to blame for Sunday evening's AWS outage.
http://aussieoutages.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services

http://status.aws.amazon.com/

https://cloudharmony.com/status-1week

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-regions-availability-zones.html

For example, your Availability Zone us-east-1a might not be the same location as us-east-1a for another account. There's no way for you to coordinate Availability Zones between accounts.

AWS official response:

http://aws.amazon.com/message/4372T8/