Iran struck Amazon data centers again amid widening war, satellites show

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Haha, hit em where it hurts: right in the stock market.

Not funny think of their portfolios you callous jerk

How will they feed their children?




Is it gauche to say “Good” ?


Just a reminder 2/3 of the internet runs on AWS

… Which you would think would be enough of a monopoly to break a company apart.


Nothing to worry about here!


No one told the dumbasses to put all their eggs in one basket


Yes, but they’re not evenly distributed across regions. You could take out every non-US and non-EU AWS region, and most of the top-500 traffic AWS sites would still be up.



In technology, we are constantly being beaten about resiliency. Two of everything. Two locations.

However, we never do two providers. There are services that overlay the control of different cloud providers to create what appears to be a single platform. Maybe those will become more popular if aws continues to be a target.

Managing infrastructure already sucks ass on AWS; i can’t imagine using another abstraction layer on top that has to account for the “quirks” of that and other cloud providers




What kind of dumbass builds a data center in the middle east?

Literally every cloud company


A company that has operations in the Middle East. Proximity matters quite a bit when networking at scale. Networking across Tier 1/2 carriers gets expensive quickly, and is hard to justify when you can put the datacenter closer to the customers.


Well the gulf countries was stable until the idiot and war criminal trump started this illegal war



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