THEM: but what if they ban Bitcoin?
ME: In order to effect a ban on Bitcoin, they would have to take down the entire Internet.
THEM: you were saying...
ME: 😟
Discussion
running a node in your home mostly fixes this :)
Yes - with regard to AWS going down. Of course, in the unlikely event that 'they' actually took down the entire Internet, it would be a different story.
Is that even possible?
Also, this is why prepping is an appropriate "handcuff" to Bitcoin.
Possible; but, not really plausible, IMO (except for maybe incidentally as a result of nuclear war or something like that).
Regardless, 'prepping' for it means a lot more than just running a node.