Why do so many put their resources in AWS us-east-1 when that's the only one (that I'm aware of) that has ever gone down?

Why not us-east-2 if you need east coast? Even so, I'm almost as far as I can be (in America) from us-west-1 and us-west-2. The difference in speed is barely perceptible when running services out west. In fact, I think my Lightsail PiHole is out there.

As I said, I'm not aware of any historical issues at the other DCs. 🤷🏻‍♂️