You prepare for these by doing specific exercises for them, sad as it may seem.
Leetcoding problems? You grind them out for a month or two to prepare for doing them during interview loops.
Mock interviews can help too, to get you better at handling the stress. You can use services/groups for these, or just go interview for random places you’re not necessarily planning to actually say yes to.




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