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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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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

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…

Are you implying that something that gets reported on, shouldn't be on HN? Also, clearly it wasn't that extensive if GP hadn't heard about it

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

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As an aside: I lack the vocabulary, but man those interactive "stats" cards scream LLM-written to me. No problem with it, necessarily, just something about that style seems to raise a flag in my mind.

Part of it is the clash with the pages UI. Dark black cards in the middle of a light theme.

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

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As an aside: I lack the vocabulary, but man those interactive "stats" cards scream LLM-written to me. No problem with it, necessarily, just something about that style seems to raise a flag in my mind.

The entire houseofsaud.com site appears to be LLM-generated, I wouldn't trust a single thing it says.

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

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

There was a building hit near the data center on the first day of the war and that took down one AZ (unfortunately, two of my three EC2 instances were in that AZ). The hit on April 1 pretty much took it all down. Fortunately I had relatively up-to-date backups (both within 24 hours before each outage) so all I lost was a little email (spam) and some libera chat logs. I've moved to ap-southeast-1, which means trading a ~ 60ms ping to ~ 110ms.

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

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As an aside: I lack the vocabulary, but man those interactive "stats" cards scream LLM-written to me. No problem with it, necessarily, just something about that style seems to raise a flag in my mind.

The entire houseofsaud.com site appears to be LLM-generated, I wouldn't trust a single thing it says.

I wouldn't trust a single thing it says even if it was human-generated.

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

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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?

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