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IRGC Claims It Destroyed Amazon's Bahrain Data Center
https://houseofsaud.com/irgc-claims-destroyed-amazon-bahrain-data-center/
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KokeshHonestly, Iran could go a lot further in inspiring the left. I love that one of the main Iranian spokespersons is constantly talking about the “Epstein Class” and soft-framing the war as a class struggle.
I mean, I fucking hate Fidel Castro, but the guy wrote good propaganda.
sp3ctr4lhttps://radar.cloudflare.com/cloud-observatory/amazon/me-south-1
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
https://repost.aws/questions/QU9Tw9aOItQMKTMaJHobNnUg/https-me-south-1-console-aws-amazon-com
Amazon appears to agree.
The IRGC said in a statement on Tuesday that it had struck back at what it called the “child-killing US Army” by attacking Amazon infrastructure in Bahrain, claiming AWS’s “central data infrastructure” had been “destroyed” after being hit by “several cruise missiles,” according to Google Translate. The IRGC said the claimed strike was retaliation for what Iran described as a US attack on the under-construction Darkhovin nuclear facility.
A look at the AWS Health Dashboard shows that there are definitely issues in Bahrain and the UAE, with issues in both regions being blamed on the US-Iranian conflict. While the status of AWS me-central-1 (UAE) is just “unable to reliably support customer applications,” me-south-1 (Bahrain) is said to be “currently unavailable.”
The last update to the state of AWS services in Bahrain and the UAE in the open issues area of the Dashboard was on April 30, and the Service History tab shows that every single AWS service in Bahrain has been offline for months.
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Oh, that’s hilarious.
Not only are data centres a legitimate target due to being used by the military, they’re also a relatively small building filled with very valuable, very fragile equipment. So, if you want to cause significant problems for your enemy, they just make sense as a target.
Added benefit that it’s not a school, hospital, or place of religious worship.
All the more reason not to put these in residential areas…
But if we use human shields we can protect capital!
All the more reason to pull compute and storage back to on prem
Relatively small compared to? A new data centre being built here is the size of 5 shopping centers
For the value of the equipment inside, and how important they are to an economy, they’re very compact.
For sure, very dense
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