Amazon Cloud Unit's Data Centers In UAE, Bahrain Damaged In Drone Strikes (reuters.com) 55
sizzlinkitty shares a Reuters report detailing how drone strikes in the Middle East conflict with Iran damaged AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, disrupting core cloud services and causing "prolonged" outages. Following the initial report, where Reuters said "objects" had triggered a fire at the data centers, the article was updated with additional information: A strike on the UAE facility marks the first time a major U.S. tech company's data center has been disrupted by military action. It raises questions around Big Tech's pace of expansion in the region. "In the UAE, two of our facilities were directly struck, while in Bahrain, a drone strike in close proximity to one of our facilities caused physical impact to our infrastructure," Amazon's cloud unit Amazon Web Services (AWS) said in an update on its status page. "These strikes have caused structural damage, disrupted power delivery to our infrastructure, and in some cases required fire suppression activities that resulted in additional water damage," AWS said. "We are working to restore full service availability as quickly as possible, though we expect recovery to be prolonged given the nature of the physical damage involved," it added.
Financial institutions that use AWS services have been affected by the outage, one person with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters, requesting anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. "Even as we work to restore these facilities, the ongoing conflict in the region means that the broader operating environment in the Middle East remains unpredictable," AWS said. The AWS outage disrupted a dozen core cloud services and the company advised customers to back up critical data and shift operations to servers in unaffected AWS regions. Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank said its platforms and mobile app were unavailable due to a region-wide IT disruption, although it did not directly link the outage to the AWS incident. "In previous conflicts, regional adversaries such as Iran and its proxies targeted pipelines, refineries, and oil fields in Gulf partner states. In the compute era, these actors could also target data centers, energy infrastructure supporting compute, and fiber chokepoints," Washington-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies said last week.
Financial institutions that use AWS services have been affected by the outage, one person with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters, requesting anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. "Even as we work to restore these facilities, the ongoing conflict in the region means that the broader operating environment in the Middle East remains unpredictable," AWS said. The AWS outage disrupted a dozen core cloud services and the company advised customers to back up critical data and shift operations to servers in unaffected AWS regions. Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank said its platforms and mobile app were unavailable due to a region-wide IT disruption, although it did not directly link the outage to the AWS incident. "In previous conflicts, regional adversaries such as Iran and its proxies targeted pipelines, refineries, and oil fields in Gulf partner states. In the compute era, these actors could also target data centers, energy infrastructure supporting compute, and fiber chokepoints," Washington-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies said last week.
Ask trump for repairs (Score:2)
Just like putin back in 2022, he started this shit, so it is his job to fix it.
Re: Ask trump for repairs (Score:2)
Exactly!
Good (Score:2, Troll)
This shows that no matter how much you cozy up you're not safe.
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Yeah, Iranian drones striking an Amazon data-center is Trump's fault.
Flip the script, if Trump decided against intervention because retaliation might negatively impact some of the large corporations that donated to his inauguration, you'd be criticizing him for that too, would you not?
Honestly its tiring seeing you TDSers post over and over again. Yet we have to respond because otherwise some low-information voter might read it and not realize they are just looking at a stopped clock.
Real questions for you
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North Korea (and a dozen other countries) does everything you accuse Iran of yet we don't even think of acting.
Why Iran?
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The bomb - and China.
So do you want more nominal enemies that are effectively untouchable? How is that good for us?
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Rubio just said it's because Netanyahu forced Trump to do it. Even his allies are telling you that Trump is easy to manipulate.
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What's the USA doing in the Middle East?
Iran has never attacked America or overturned one of its elections
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Isreal wants it broken, and it's got oil. You know, just like Iraq (but worse, given Iran has 92M people....
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How many people should the Iranian regime be allowed to execute (exuecte not jail, not deport, not ... whatever, KILL) for protesting?
I suspect that according to you for the USA the number should be at least 2
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I’m curious where the penalty for interfering with law enforcement is death and why it was carried out by police and not a jury.
The Ashli Babbit shooting was justified. Stop breaking into the building or we’ll shoot. She bled out while wearing a Trump flag.
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Ashley Babbit and Charlie Kirk both died of fentanyl overdoses, the mainstream media is lying to you.
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But you knew that already. Calling yourself an anonymous coward should be prosecuted as stolen valor in your case.
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In any case, America isn't worse off for having crippled Iran.
Your reasoning, and the questions you ask, remind me of the propagandists from the Iraq war, people shouting "Is the world better off without Saddam Hussein? Answer the question! Yes or no! Yes or no!" and the problem with that it's not really a yes-no question, it's a cost-benefit question. There are human costs, military costs, fiscal costs, political costs, opportunity costs. For Americans and for everyone else. I don't see you talking about the costs.
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The costs are huge. We are unloading a massive quantity of weaponry we cant quickly replace.
This will cost at least a Trillion or damn near to it before we are done.
Again depending on what the off ramp is, the cost in American blood might yet remain pretty small.
Political costs are moot, everyone is all ready with us or against us; I don't think this will *meaningfully* change jack-or-shit internationally.
Domestic political costs - are hard to predict, if we end up with Enduring Freedom 2.0 - Trump and tho
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The costs are huge....at least a Trillion or damn near to it before we are done.
Seems plausible.
the cost in American blood might yet remain pretty small.
Also plausible. Of course I wasn't just talking about Americans when I said "human cost." I'm a bit dismayed that that's all you thought to count. But that's typical - the US has long had the ability to insulate itself from major casualties, let alone the threat of conscription, so Americans tend to vastly underestimate the human cost of these wars of choice.
Political costs are moot, everyone is all ready with us or against us; I don't think this will *meaningfully* change jack-or-shit internationally.
This is an enormous underestimation. Damages include:
- relationships with allies (especially as the US was threatening to s
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The alternate reality is Trump loses in 2016, the JCPOA remains in place instead of getting discarded for, well, nothing and chances are we aren't in this position today where Iran is *yet again* close to developing a nuclear weapon. So much of the arguments about this whole thing are silly in that Trump created this problem himself by breaking treaty for no good reason and driving Iran back into development of a bomb because what else would they be incentivized to do after that?
The cost and risk today is
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TDS? Yeah, you've got TRS, Trump Reality Syndrome. You're unable to believe your eyes, instead you believe what he said just now (as opposed to two hours ago, as opposed to last night).
By the bye, I listened to a long interview with Scott Ritter (I know, you're too young to remember when he lead the teams in Iraq to look for WMDs 20 years ago). He says, it's now *worse* for the US and Israel. The old ayatollah had issued two fatwahs *against* nuclear weapons. The new one - yes, there's one in the wings - ha
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The only reaction to Trump that MAGAts understand is worship. Therefore to them any other reaction is derangement.
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Not to young. bye the bye.
The new Ayatollah will likely be assassinated before this over, just like the last one.
Ritter is off base, Nukes are are problem but they are not the concern here. Again the problem is not dirty bombs or nukes, that is one of the narratives being tried with the public because anti-proliferation is politically acceptable.
The real reason I am pretty sure hyper-sonic misses and to a lessor extent drones. Trump and and lot of other people in our government don't want to come out and s
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This is some deranged horseshit, an absurd mix of straw men, begging the question, and inability to see anything wrong for declaring war on a country for no apparent concrete reason or ability to see the consequences.
What is wrong with you? When are you going to understand that you're being conned? The guy is doing it right in front of you, he isn't even trying to hide it, and you're still accusing everyone who doesn't worship him of "TDS". And let's be honest, that's the level, because if it were "People w
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As god is my witness
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Obama had this covered a decade ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
But since it was the black guy's doing we can't have that today.
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That is the difference between asking someone real nicely to stop following you and taking their boots so they can't.
Obama's strategy was talk, and as far as the rest of the world went it was just that talk.
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How’s that no new wars promise working out? https://www.nytimes.com/live/2... [nytimes.com]
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Not too good.
Like I said I am not really defending the policy, knowing what I know (I don't get CIA intelligence briefings) I don't think I would have made this call.
However I can see see arguments for the aggression and the timing. I don't think anyone outside the Pentagon and White House; can credibly state if this was or was not a well considered action, and I don't think anyone can know if it will prove to have been a good strategic move or not.
Until the dust settlers or certainly worse continues to be
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In what reality was it working?
Terrorism and chaos had been and continued to be the norm in the region. We were still looking at declining influence and future where we will not be able to project force effectively.
Iran was still enabling our enemies around the world, and undermining our efforts elsewhere.
Just because you developed a tolerance for the status quo does not indicate things were working.
I return to - America is unquestionably better off in a world where Iran is impoverished and helpless (alrea
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> Obama's strategy was talk, and as far as the rest of the world went it was just that talk
Here's a reason that made me smile:
"In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran" -Trump
https://globalnews.ca/news/636... [globalnews.ca]
Outage? How many facilities were hit? (Score:2)
It only one data center was hit, most AWS customers who properly configured their infrastructure over multiple availability zones shouldn't be seriously impacted by this outage. It should have just failed over seamlessly.
Of course, that also requires that AWS engineered THEIR infrastructure correctly and everything failed over as expected. I've found in the past that AWS's actual data center resiliency isn't as good as their marketing says that it is.
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Well, per the summary, three separate AWS facilities were hit.
But...
who properly configured their infrastructure over multiple availability zones
Yeah, based on history, that's far from guaranteed. Particularly for places that see cloud hosting as a cost optimization, they tend to cheap out beyond all reason.
I've found in the past that AWS's actual data center resiliency isn't as good as their marketing says that it is.
Also this, AWS has even recently had outages due to some of their infrastructure being non-redundant and pinned to a specific site.
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BAH servces were not impacted, but DXB is basically down one and a half AZs.
Epstein-Iran War (Score:5, Funny)
After that Melania movie, Amazon deserves this.
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After that Melania movie, Amazon deserves this.
I wish I had mod points. This deserves modded up as either funny or insightful, maybe both.
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How soon before SNL uses this?
Provocation? (Score:2)
What's it going to take for Amazon to get their strike teams involved in this war?
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What, JB upgrades gov't addresses in Iran to Amazon's new ++Prime Blue Rocket Drone delivery and gifts everyone there a complimentary salad spinner, with free delivery?
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This matters, because for whatever Iran is or is not, and no matter how we might judge them for their actions, we should only do so for things they actually did, not things they didn't (and arguably were actually done by the UAE)
does it really matter? iran has bombed many critical interests in the area, from businesses to "intelligence" and nearly all military assets, which is the military strategy they quite clearly announced before the (well expected) "sneak" attack: if you do attack again we will set the whole region on fire.
in the bigger picture this whole thing is about maintaining decades long western control of western asia (trade routes, ports, resources) through buying out, weakening or balkanizing all these countries, spe
This is the warmup round (Score:2)
Meanwhile, US and allies are wasting expensive interceptors and as they're already running low, SK THAAD was completely packed-up for the Middle East, and lots of US and allied installations lack basic AA and MG defense that could bring down shaheeds. POTUS, Rubio, and Whiskey Pete are morons who will bring 10x 9/11's to America.
It's going to get really bad because IR planned for this.
And
You cannot spell Bahrain without AI (Score:2)
But you can order a drone strike instead
They didn't invoke Disaster Recovery?! (Score:2)
So many companies *think* they have DR and think that the DR solution they have is for almost anything.
AWS likely had a good DR solution but it might not cover the scenario of "shit explodes everywhere".
So many companies get DR wrong and they only find out when they need it: High Availability is not DR. Backups are not DR. Replication is not DR.
DR has scenarios. Those scenarios your DR solution is supposed to cover might not be covered unless DR is regularly tested fully end to end, documented, traine
you can't spell Bahrain without AI (Score:2)
But you can use drones for a real strike, now can you