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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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Post by atsaloli »

kasey_junk wrote: post #23
dotancohen wrote: post #16

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?

The primary condition is giving up nuclear ambitions.

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by BonoboIO »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #25
RamblingCTO wrote: post #17

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?

FUBAR, I would vote for that

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by jleyank »

Hmmm. We’ve seen the fun that comes from cutting data cables and pipelines. Think that’s been factored in with the asymmetric warfare coming from the Middle East? Perhaps some network assaults as well?

Krugman has pointed out that modern war is bloody expensive. Perhaps resistance will just be helping burn money? Lots of motivated people on one side. And I hope countries are being careful, as a Thirty Years War in the Middle East would suck.

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by tzahifadida »

orwin wrote: post #38
tzahifadida wrote: post #8

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They can make it very expensive though. And they can't negotiate, given it's the second time they are attacked during negotiations, so really, what can they do? Cause the most chaos possible around them, strain the relationships between the US and other ME countries, force the US to make a choice about which ally to protect (it will be Saudi Arabia), make the oil price go up and deplete US weapon stocks. If the force…

In WW-II, the US bombed the hell out of German forces for months on end. That is what people do not understand. The US have the capability to generate bombs indefinitely. There will be no boots on the ground for soldiers (they wish). They will just get pulverised as time goes by. If the US and Israel will think they cannot get to their thick skull they'll simply bomb the oil refineries and let the Iranian regime deal with paychecks from their street goons and fanatics who will eat them alive.

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by LAC-Tech »

atsaloli wrote: post #41
kasey_junk wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

The primary condition is giving up nuclear ambitions.

It is too late, Israel already has nuclear weapons.

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by richsouth »

RamblingCTO wrote: post #17

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

What do you mean 'finally' - surely 'redundancy' or 'natural disaster' is reason enough.

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by lyu07282 »

LAC-Tech wrote: post #27
dotancohen wrote: post #16

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.

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…

I think this shifted overtone window has partially to do with why they started this war to begin with, they see the writing on the wall and their window of opportunity is closing. Trump is at historic lows in polling [1]; 65% of democrats now sympathize more with Palestinians over Israelis (17%) [2]. HN is just a generally reactionary place, I wouldn't read to much into that.

[1] https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-sil...

[2] https://news.gallup.com/poll/702440/israelis-no-longer-ahead...

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by joe_mamba »

temp0826 wrote: post #35
tamirzb wrote: post #31

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This comment makes it seem as if it's the US who striked the Amazon data center.

The US lost 3 of its own fighter jets yesterday due to friendly fire[0], is it out of the realm of possibility? [0] https://newrepublic.com/post/207197/us-shoots-three-fighter-...

US tax dollars blowing up US tax dollars. Lockheed Martin and Boeing stonks go up.

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by xer »

Lesson learned: If your recovery plan requires calling any API in the dead region — to detach an IP, describe a route table, launch an instance, read an S3 object, or decrypt a volume — it will fail when you need it most.

Every dependency on the primary region is a dependency on the thing that just broke.

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