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Iranian strikes are taking out AWS servers in the region.

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[–] GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 91 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You helped make it happen, Bezos. Now eat your shit sandwich.

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This is what insurance is for. He wont pay a dime over the deductible.

[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pretty much every single insurance policy has a terrorism or war exception.

There are policies for both of those, but they tend to be much more expensive.

Some companies self insure.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Some companies self insure.

I would especially expect that of a company like Amazon that's bigger than the insurers (and re-insurers) themselves.

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

The US government will just have tax payers give a bailout.

[–] logi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The premiums just went way up though, and at some point insurers will just refuse.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

He'll demand Tax money bailout

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

He is not profiting or expanding. You can't just spawn infinite data centers

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 62 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The stupidity of waging war in an interconnected world for no reason is getting clearer by the day.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

We found out recently it was "to bring the biblical end times."

Turns out the only thing US government loves more than religious extremism was projecting it to minorities.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

WW3 is between evangelical christians and everyone else who just want to survive.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I know of a hack the evangelicals can use to get to the Kingdom of Heaven much faster and save us the trouble

[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Data centre unavailable for the foreseeable future. Ticket closed." 

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Back in the early 2000’s I worked at Akamai, and as part of my training I spent time in their Network Operations Center. They have equipment in literally thousands of data centers around the world, and rely on the datacenter staff for any physical work.

One day I was looking at old tickets in the NOC and found one that had been open for a few years and apparently abandoned. It was about an entire rack of gear at a small Midwest ISP that had stopped responding. The NOC staff had tried all their typical remote troubleshooting then reached out to the ISP for physical troubleshooting.

The last comment in the ticket stated that the datacenter had been destroyed by a tornado.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why would you not close the ticket as "WONTFIX" or something in that situation?

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

My guess is that they hoped to eventually replace the equipment if/when the datacenter was rebuilt.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn. Shouldn’t have donated to short term gains: the party. Get fucked

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

"What do you mean the 'short term gains' were three quarters ago. 'Short term' is supposed to mean the next couple quarters, always."

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 28 points 1 week ago

And nothing of value was lost

[–] remon@ani.social 24 points 1 week ago

That's a casualty of war I'm more than willing to accept.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

Oh no! Anyway...

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago

Didn't expect the datacenter wars to start so soon.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 16 points 1 week ago

Who's smirking now, Amazon?

[–] trashboat@piefed.social 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just FYI this isn’t new, happened a month ago if I’m not mistaken

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] trashboat@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

Both Dubai and Bahrain, which are still lit up on the AWS health dashboard

[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 13 points 1 week ago

Inshallah 🙌

God's work.

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

Fuck do I need to start making multi region backups now

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

get ready for your taxes to pay a few more billion to Bezos.

[–] alexquiniou@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

Oh shiit ... Anyway

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 5 points 1 week ago
[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is so low on the list of things to care about in the current situation it’s ridiculous.

Unless it’s the only datacentre hosting critical infrastructure, then you can care, but not on a weekend.

[–] SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Hey I care about this. Hearing that Amazon data centers are literally being bombed is like a little spot of joy in all of this.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

Hey, that’s true!

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

I'm just thinking...how do I sign up for this?

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago
[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

What's the support ticket code for Shahed hit?

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago