It's mostly a skill issue for services that go down when USE-1 has issues in AWS - if you actually know your shit, then you don't get these kinds of issues.
Case in point: Netflix runs on AWS and experienced no issues during this thing.
And yes, it's scary that so many high-profile companies are this bad at the thing they spend all day doing
Getting bought is often the whole point for a founder, since that's one of a few ways for you to get a big payday.
Getting bought only really happens if a majority of the shareholders agree to it, so you can reject it as much as you want.