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Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by bayindirh »

eb0la wrote: post #40
WJW wrote: post #3

Earlier 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.

Not just Amazon - I guess the Oil and gas industry is now run on the cloud. They used to have big SGI machines 30 years ago... but I bet everything is on the cloud now using GPUs.

I tend to believe that they still have their own clusters. For speed and privacy reasons. You don't want to give away the location of the oil you have found.

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by bayindirh »

dotancohen wrote: post #16
randunel wrote: 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.

I believe they have warned that any country offering support will be targeted, even before the attacks began.

So they are cowards if they do what they say, and they are cowards if they don't do anything.

What should they do? Evacuate the country and offer the land for free?

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by ta20240528 »

kasey_junk wrote: post #32
ta20240528 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

The world has seen what Israel does when they’re attacked. They don’t get to set moral frameworks anymore.

Agreed. But that wasn't the OP's question.

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by bayindirh »

tzahifadida wrote: post #45
orwin wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> The US have the capability to generate bombs indefinitely.

The same US which had to re-build and re-open factories to be able to support Ukraine, and had an important shortage of shells for some time?

The same US talking with their allies to build ships for them?

US generals said that their defensive munition is not infinite. Middle Eastern countries said that they have Patriot stockpiles for 4 days.

We're past WWII. Nobody has that capacity anymore. Some of the tech and factories built these gigantic battle cruisers are not present anymore even.

US may, and can pulverize Iran if they want, but it'll be much more expensive than WWII era, because of how interconnected the world is now, and this is how post-WWII world has been designated. Make everyone depend on everyone, and make war very expensive as a result.

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by BlobberSnobber »

joe_mamba wrote: post #13
butler14 wrote: post #10

Any 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-...

It wasn't the US attacking the UAE, just FYI.

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by LAC-Tech »

lyu07282 wrote: post #48
LAC-Tech wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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-ap…

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Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by lyu07282 »

butler14 wrote: post #10

Any chance this is causing the claude issues directly/indirectly?

Most people assume its because of the influx in chatgpt users switching to claude. 295% daily uninstall hike of ChatGPT: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/chatgpt-uninstalls-surged-...

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by nixon_why69 »

tzahifadida wrote: post #45
orwin wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Its not bombs that are running out, its interceptors. The 12 day war exhausted 25% of american stocks, we're on day 3 of this round, do the math.

What happens to Israel when the interceptors run out and they're on equal standing with Iranian/Palestinian/Lebanese civilians?

Re: AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

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Post by SirFatty »

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

You don't already have a DR plan in place?
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