Any chance this is causing the claude issues directly/indirectly?
Why would they funnel all their traffic to a middle eastern AZ?
AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE
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Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE
#12More recent news: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-data-centers-middle-e... > Two facilities in the United Arab Emirates sustained direct hits, while a third facility in Bahrain was damaged by a drone strike "in close proximity," Also to add context: AWS has contracts with the US military: "The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract enables AWS to continue providing Department of Defense (DoD) custo…
us govt and big business have always worked hand in hand, they compliment each other.
They complement each other too, which is more impactul than any compliments they might send.
Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE
#13Any chance this is causing the claude issues directly/indirectly?
> U.S. Military Using Anthropic for Middle East Airstrikes[1]
> Strikes hit AWS datacenter
> Antropic aided strikes causes Anthropic outage lol
[1] https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-strikes-2026/card/u-s-...
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Amazon is an extremely visible American company, hitting their assets carries a symbolic meaning even if the DoD wouldn't have anything running on that datacentre at all. Iran's trying to transmit a message of "we can destroy your stuff too", trying to impact the general US feeling of invulnerability. I don't think it'll work, but they might as well try I guess.
> I don't think it'll work, but they might as well try I guess. Consider this from the eyes of the people living there. Your world is peaceful one day and burning tomorrow. It doesn't have to be "burning like hell", but something came from the sky, entered your building, exploded and damaged some stuff to the extent that fire-supression triggered and damaged more things. Even if it's not a trauma, it's a shock. Somet…
Especially when 90% of the population are immigrants having no emotional ties to the ground
Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't think it'll work, but they might as well try I guess. Consider this from the eyes of the people living there. Your world is peaceful one day and burning tomorrow. It doesn't have to be "burning like hell", but something came from the sky, entered your building, exploded and damaged some stuff to the extent that fire-supression triggered and damaged more things. Even if it's not a trauma, it's a shock. Somet…
Especially when 90% of the population are immigrants having no emotional ties to the ground
Yeah, it'll definitely trigger "why am I here and putting up with this" response in some people, and that's a breaking point for many of them.
Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Amazon is an extremely visible American company, hitting their assets carries a symbolic meaning even if the DoD wouldn't have anything running on that datacentre at all. Iran's trying to transmit a message of "we can destroy your stuff too", trying to impact the general US feeling of invulnerability. I don't think it'll work, but they might as well try I guess.
> trying to impact the general US feeling of invulnerability Or, perhaps, trying to defend themselves? They are being attacked, after all.
That's why they've been hitting residential buildings and hotels as well? They assume that because their proxies (Hamas, Hezbollah) hide in civilian structures, so does the US army?
All these attempts to justify Iranian terror demonstrate just how deep Qatari influence online has been. And even Qatar is being attacked by Iran now.
Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE
#17I'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
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Amazon is an extremely visible American company, hitting their assets carries a symbolic meaning even if the DoD wouldn't have anything running on that datacentre at all. Iran's trying to transmit a message of "we can destroy your stuff too", trying to impact the general US feeling of invulnerability. I don't think it'll work, but they might as well try I guess.
> trying to impact the general US feeling of invulnerability Or, perhaps, trying to defend themselves? They are being attacked, after all.
America is so unused to being attacked (counter-attacked) that this needs to be explained apparently.