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We are living in increasingly weirder times.
> The other AZs in the region are functioning normally. Customers who were running their applications redundantly across the AZs are not impacted by this event.
I bet that was an interesting sev2 ticket!
Amazon usually has 3 AVs per region, looks like there are surviving AVs but the system didn't switch over gracefully. I bet that was an interesting sev2 ticket!
The other ones are not impacted. They always like to tell you to pay for more than one instance in different AZs so if this happens you don't get impacted.
God forbid we'd ever say that it was struck by a missile or a munition in an act of war.
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A factory not working because of a missile strike seems pretty classic actually.
Sure, but it's not a factory.
Its products are sequences of electrons, instead of atoms. But so are power plants. And in the context of what happens when they're hit by missiles, a factory, data center, and power plant all behave the same.
> one of our Availability Zones (mec1-az2) was impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire. God forbid we'd ever say that it was struck by a missile or a munition in an act of war.
Seems like it should be somewhat easier to bomb 50 datacenters than it would be to hack and disrupt 1000s of different services.
Again, this is just me thinking out loud on a tangent and this doesn't have much to do with this story, but I felt it was an interesting thought to share nonetheless.