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AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

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Re: AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

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Post by mitxela »

bigiain wrote: post #118
sparkling wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If a AWS customer chooses to store their data in a single AZ, that is a design choice. AWS is not taking a daily copy of a entire regions S3 cluster and driving it to some warehouse for a "just in case" situation. That is why Multi-AZ exists.

Isn't S3 claiming eleven nines of data durability? https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/ "Additionally, S3 stores data redundantly across a minimum of 3 Availability Zones by default, providing built-in resilience against widespread disaster." I wonder if "can't restore some data" includes any S3 data? I'd expect to lose EC2 instance EBS data in the event of a datacenter being destroyed, but I kinda assume I wou…

1/f noise strikes again

Re: AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

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Post by sire-vc »

fooker wrote: post #125
BonoboIO wrote: post #13

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If you can not restore data from EU based Amazon Datacenters because it’s destroyed … you will definitely have better things to do like packing your go bag or buying the last groceries for a while.

Ah yeah, the EU, a historically stable area.

Border between France and Germany is a particularly well know peaceful area, especially Alsace-Lorraine.

Re: AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

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Post by mitxela »

the8472 wrote: post #83
beejiu wrote: post #43

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The SLA excludes force majeure.

Making a probabilistic claim while excluding a factor that dominates those statistics is... is quite creative accounting.

Creative accounting works and is good because it works. If your customers give you more money because you lied to them, but it's legal, then it's good.

Re: AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

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Post by mitxela »

ernsheong wrote: post #114

Hey but that's exactly as per design. It is the customer's responsibility to store stuff elsewhere as DR backup, not AWS.

That's the excuse they'll say, yes, then we quote back to them "eleven nines" and they come up with an excuse for that too

Re: AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

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Post by sire-vc »

shitloadofbooks wrote: post #48
wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #14

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Can you post the specs on your missile defense system for your home lab? How are you dealing with the rise of low-cast swarm attacks from drones? Is it land-based, sea-based or space-based and at what point of the trajectory do you target and do you use jamming?

I would but then I'd have to kill you.

Re: AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

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Post by selcuka »

sparkling wrote: post #86
cmiles8 wrote: post #73

This interview with an AWS leader isn’t aging well, from CBS Sunday morning: Pogue asked, "I don't mean to give anyone ideas, but let's say I figured out that one of these unmarked buildings was an AWS data center, and I blew it up. Are you saying that it's so backed up and redundant that you probably wouldn't notice?" Wood replied, "Yeah, you wouldn't notice. I mean, we might be a bit upset, but you wouldn't notice!…

He forgot to add "if it's Multi-AZ" ;)

> "The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand," AWS said in the status update

Re: AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

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Post by mitxela »

SmirkingRevenge wrote: post #57

It was always a bad bet for billionaires like Bezos to become Trump enablers. You weren't buying a seat at the table, or the privilege of being left alone, you were just signing yourself up to be force-fed shit sandwiches over and over (And the shit-to-bread ratio gets worse as time goes on) You should have used your considerable resources to fight. If only billionaires would oppose aspiring tyrants with the same zea…

Bezos hasn't lost anything from this. He's only gotten richer.

Re: AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

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Post by mitxela »

Cyclone_ wrote: post #62
shevy-java wrote: post #32

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Israel had been trying to get every president to bomb Iran for decades. There's a reason they wouldn't do it themselves. They finally got a president stupid enough to listen.

Re: AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

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Post by mitxela »

StanislavPetrov wrote: post #140
drnick1 wrote: post #72

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Do you know why Iranians were chanting "Death To America"? Because we toppled their democratically elected government in 1953 and installed a brutal dictator so that we could continue to pillage their oil.(1) When the mullahs finally toppled that dictator in 1979 they had reason to be angry with us. This is especially true because almost immediately afterwards, in the 1980s, we used our proxy Saddam Hussein to launch…

We're chanting "Death to Iran" - isn't turnabout fair play?
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