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Iranian strikes are taking out AWS servers in the region.

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[–] GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 115 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 3 months 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 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 7 points 3 months ago

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

[–] logi@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

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

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

He'll demand Tax money bailout

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 85 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months 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 43 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months 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 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

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

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

Oh no! Anyway...

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 35 points 3 months ago

And nothing of value was lost

[–] remon@ani.social 33 points 3 months ago

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

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 25 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 23 points 3 months ago

Who's smirking now, Amazon?

[–] trashboat@piefed.social 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] trashboat@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago

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

God's work.

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago
[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 15 points 3 months ago

Inshallah 🙌

[–] alexquiniou@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 months ago

Oh shiit ... Anyway

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Fuck do I need to start making multi region backups now

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 months 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 40 points 3 months 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 3 points 3 months ago

Hey, that’s true!

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 3 months ago

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

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 8 points 3 months ago
[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago

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

[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

What's the support ticket code for Shahed hit?

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 6 points 3 months ago
[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 months ago