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IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center

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Re: IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center

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Post by gortok »

Neil44 wrote: post #2

Shows unavailable, last status update 30th April https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Makes me wonder how much use it actually gets if this is the first we’re hearing about it.

Edit: Incidentally news of the original strike was posted on HN 5 months ago and flagged, for whatever reason. Why would it be flagged? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317587

Re: IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center

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Post by antonymoose »

gortok wrote: post #3
Neil44 wrote: post #2

Shows unavailable, last status update 30th April https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Makes me wonder how much use it actually gets if this is the first we’re hearing about it. Edit: Incidentally news of the original strike was posted on HN 5 months ago and flagged, for whatever reason. Why would it be flagged? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317587

Oftentimes discussions get killed not because the source article is bad but because the discussions themselves devolve into flame bait/war?

Re: IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center

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Post by oneplane »

gortok wrote: post #3
Neil44 wrote: post #2

Shows unavailable, last status update 30th April https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Makes me wonder how much use it actually gets if this is the first we’re hearing about it. Edit: Incidentally news of the original strike was posted on HN 5 months ago and flagged, for whatever reason. Why would it be flagged? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317587

It's been extensively reported on, and any AWS user that clicks on the health dashboard would also have seen it, even if they don't consume from news outlets.

As for use it gets: plenty of use, mostly when someone needs to have their worlds close to that area (usually latency or legal reasons). There are a lot of smaller businesses that lost a lot (or maybe even everything) because their never thought they would need to create backups in a different region. Most of that wasn't really reported on but instead gets shared on various platforms like Reddit.

Re: IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center

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Post by dmurray »

gortok wrote: post #3
Neil44 wrote: post #2

Shows unavailable, last status update 30th April https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Makes me wonder how much use it actually gets if this is the first we’re hearing about it. Edit: Incidentally news of the original strike was posted on HN 5 months ago and flagged, for whatever reason. Why would it be flagged? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317587

> Makes me wonder how much use it actually gets if this is the first we’re hearing about it.

Or how good their HA/failover strategy must be.

Although losing one data centre from an availability zone seems like exactly the kind of issue AWS plan for and handle well, and does not take down the whole AZ. By contrast with "our BGP config got messed up".

Re: IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center

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Post by gortok »

antonymoose wrote: post #4
gortok wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Makes me wonder how much use it actually gets if this is the first we’re hearing about it. Edit: Incidentally news of the original strike was posted on HN 5 months ago and flagged, for whatever reason. Why would it be flagged? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317587

Oftentimes discussions get killed not because the source article is bad but because the discussions themselves devolve into flame bait/war?

Having reviewed the comments I don’t see any indication of why it would be flagged for the discussion.

Re: IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center

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Post by appreciatorBus »

gortok wrote: post #3
Neil44 wrote: post #2

Shows unavailable, last status update 30th April https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Makes me wonder how much use it actually gets if this is the first we’re hearing about it. Edit: Incidentally news of the original strike was posted on HN 5 months ago and flagged, for whatever reason. Why would it be flagged? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317587

> Why would it be flagged?

Because individual HN users do the flagging and many are tired of the inevitable and pointless Israel v Palestine proxy comment war that predictably erupts on any topic related to the Middle East.

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