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AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by astrange »

joe_mamba wrote: post #49
temp0826 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The US lost 3 of its own fighter jets yesterday due to friendly fire[0], is it out of the realm of possibility? [0] https://newrepublic.com/post/207197/us-shoots-three-fighter-...

US tax dollars blowing up US tax dollars. Lockheed Martin and Boeing stonks go up.

Generally speaking defense contractors do not make more money during wars, because we start asking them to make low-margin realistic stuff, whereas in peace time we get bored and start paying them to design imaginary superweapons.

But we also usually don't blow up our own planes I suppose.

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by joe_mamba »

astrange wrote: post #81
joe_mamba wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

US tax dollars blowing up US tax dollars. Lockheed Martin and Boeing stonks go up.

Generally speaking defense contractors do not make more money during wars, because we start asking them to make low-margin realistic stuff, whereas in peace time we get bored and start paying them to design imaginary superweapons. But we also usually don't blow up our own planes I suppose.

>Generally speaking defense contractors do not make more money during wars

US economy is not in war mode right now in order to ask its contractors to make cheap stuff.

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by randunel »

atsaloli wrote: post #41
kasey_junk wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is Hezbollah hiding in the elementary school that got bombed? Perhaps that’s where the Iranian nuclear research was done? We attacked them. Full stop. And as far as I can tell we haven’t given them any conditions for when we will stop bombing them. In what moral framework do you have to just accept another sovereign, a vastly more powerful one, invading your country without fighting back?

The primary condition is giving up nuclear ambitions.

Quid pro quo? Whoever requests that of others must do the same.

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by jamesfinlayson »

RamblingCTO wrote: post #17

I've been working on that for a client since yesterday (as a fractional CTO). Pretty hectic, basically nothing really works and we don't know yet if all data is lost or if anything is recoverable or when AWS UAE will become functional again so we can recover that region. Finally, I have a very good argument for multi-region deployments ;)) that's my go to website atm: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

So AWS's availability zone architecture hasn't helped in this case?

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by arbitrary_name »

dotancohen wrote: post #69
kasey_junk wrote: post #32

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The world has seen what Israel does when they’re attacked. They don’t get to set moral frameworks anymore.

Who in your opinion sets the moral framework for defending oneself against an enemy which has sworn genocide and proven capable of destroying entire peaceful villages along their borders?

you're describing Israel here, right?

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by arbitrary_name »

bayindirh wrote: post #51
eb0la wrote: post #40

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Not just Amazon - I guess the Oil and gas industry is now run on the cloud. They used to have big SGI machines 30 years ago... but I bet everything is on the cloud now using GPUs.

I tend to believe that they still have their own clusters. For speed and privacy reasons. You don't want to give away the location of the oil you have found.

i have helped several major oil and companies migrate core infrastructure to the cloud.

plus, by the time you steal data relating to seismic surveys and reservoir analysis, you're years to late to exploit it as a competitor.

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Post by LAC-Tech »

nxm wrote: post #79
LAC-Tech wrote: post #46

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It is too late, Israel already has nuclear weapons.

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Hasbara.

Over 20 years ago the president of Iran talked about "the regime occupying jerusalem must dissappear from the pages of time".

IE they want regime change in Israel - which is exactly what the Israelis want in Iran.

The difference is Iran is a more responsible international actor and has not started two wars based on this pretext.

So yes, I trust a nuclear armed Iran much, much more than I trust a nuclear armed Israel.

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by LAC-Tech »

dotancohen wrote: post #67
cced wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We attacked them During negotiations, for the second time.

Negotiations during which the Iranians continuously stalled and continued their nuclear work. The threat of attack was part of the US negotiation strategy, and the Iranians thought they would call the "bluff". They were wrong.

Gentiles have a right to defend themselves.

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by MagicMoonlight »

jamesfinlayson wrote: post #84
RamblingCTO wrote: post #17

I've been working on that for a client since yesterday (as a fractional CTO). Pretty hectic, basically nothing really works and we don't know yet if all data is lost or if anything is recoverable or when AWS UAE will become functional again so we can recover that region. Finally, I have a very good argument for multi-region deployments ;)) that's my go to website atm: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

So AWS's availability zone architecture hasn't helped in this case?

If a whole region is bombed then you wouldn’t expect that region to stay up.

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by latentsea »

lazide wrote: post #37
crossroadsguy wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Severity: Disrupted So if data won't be recoverable you all will mark it something like "Status: FUBAR" or some equivalent term?

I wonder if ‘Apocalypse’ or ‘Molten Slag’ would be considered professional enough.

Status: Torpedoed
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