I saw someone saying "Half the Internet went down when AWS failed. This is proof you need to have money in crypto"

At some point, people are going to have to realize that crypto only makes sense in the context of a world with an open Internet. If STTF, the open Internet is about the first thing to go away, meaning your crypto isn't going to be available along with your global DNS and your connection to root miners. Shiny rocks might seem like a sillier form of value storage, but shiny rocks don't depend on a global communications internetwork to operate.