Meanwhile the Starship is being built and tested in Texas...

This has zero to do with anything relating to California's governance (and do note that the Raptor engines are made and all the design work is still done in Hawthorne). Starship is being built and tested in Boca Chica for two reasons - first is that you need an east-facing coast for your launch site so you're not launching retrograde or risking dropping rocket parts on a populated area, and second is that Starship is way too big to effectively ship across half the country. It has to be built where it'll fly.

Not in my experience. When your product/service that relies on AWS on the back end goes down, you're getting that call regardless of whether it was your crappy code or AWS being flaky. At least if it's your code, you can actually do something about it. Try telling the C-levels that there's nothing you can do because it's AWS' fault.