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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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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

Any backups?

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Capacity is tight, you serve from where you can.

Probably also because most token use cases are not latency sensitive. A 200ms extra delay isn't going to change much for most use cases.

Right, so if they were able to get a discount in UAE…

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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> 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.

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?

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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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.

they have been engaging in hybrid warfare for decade+ they don't get to play victim this is the result of their continued proxy attacks

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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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

Severity: Disrupted

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

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

#26

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

We didn't do multi-region deployments, but we did store database backups in a separate region just in case something really bad happened and our AWS region became unavailable. Also had a plan/some ready Terraform stuff in order to start setting up a deployment if it became apparent that the region wasn't coming back anytime soon.

IMO, if you're using AWS and not replicating your data somewhere else, this should be an eye-opener for you.

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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> 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.

I genuinetely do not think Hasbara like this works anymore. The overton window on this has irrevocably shifted since 2023 and it would be a better strategy for you to live within this new reality, rather than making ludicrous claims that the middle eastern country most vehemently trying to shape western views on the region is... Qatar. It just comes across as an obvious projection, and only encourages sentiment that has a real potential to become harmful to you personally.

That is, unless posts like thos are designed to encourage that sentiment, which I sometimes suspect.

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

> They assume that because their proxies (Hamas, Hezbollah) hide in civilian structures, so does the US army?

> Two US Defense Department employees were wounded when an Iranian drone struck a hotel in Bahrain's capital Manama, The Washington Post reported Monday.

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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?

I can't guess what the USA wants other than a distraction from the raping-of- children saga, but I bet Israel would settle for "we acknowledge your right to exist and won't fund or encourage organisations that plan to harm you."

If Saudi Arabia can get there…

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