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RamblingCTO 17 hours ago [-]
I've been working on that for a client since yesterday (as a fractional CTO). Pretty hectic, basically nothing really works and we don't know yet if all data is lost or if anything is recoverable or when AWS UAE will become functional again so we can recover that region.
Finally, I have a very good argument for multi-region deployments ;))
What do you mean 'finally' - surely 'redundancy' or 'natural disaster' is reason enough.
RamblingCTO 14 hours ago [-]
To a lot of managers/startup execs this is something like "we won't ever need this". And I'd agree to some extent for not so important/rebuildable services. Depends on what you need. In startups, you don't have infinite time you can spend on stuff. But this makes a good case: if a geographical region only has one AWS region, don't keep data or run services that can't be easily rebuild somewhere else.
In europe you can just pick two AWS regions and you stay in the same regions, UAE not so much.
doubled112 14 hours ago [-]
I don't think this changes anything. It is always the same argument for me.
"How often do those happen?"
RamblingCTO 14 hours ago [-]
That was my point: now we have a very specific case we can argue. I always used the "what if a plane crashes into the data center" argument. Now I can say: in one of my engagements, we lost a datacenter completely because of a drone attack. That's a first for AWS as well, but we can draw from reality, not hypotheticals.
crossroadsguy 16 hours ago [-]
Severity: Disrupted
So if data won't be recoverable you all will mark it something like "Status: FUBAR" or some equivalent term?
lazide 16 hours ago [-]
I wonder if ‘Apocalypse’ or ‘Molten Slag’ would be considered professional enough.
latentsea 2 hours ago [-]
Status: Torpedoed
bayindirh 16 hours ago [-]
I'd accept "X_X" as status.
BonoboIO 16 hours ago [-]
FUBAR, I would vote for that
jamesfinlayson 5 hours ago [-]
So AWS's availability zone architecture hasn't helped in this case?
MagicMoonlight 3 hours ago [-]
If a whole region is bombed then you wouldn’t expect that region to stay up.
Hamuko 16 hours ago [-]
We didn't do multi-region deployments, but we did store database backups in a separate region just in case something really bad happened and our AWS region became unavailable. Also had a plan/some ready Terraform stuff in order to start setting up a deployment if it became apparent that the region wasn't coming back anytime soon.
IMO, if you're using AWS and not replicating your data somewhere else, this should be an eye-opener for you.
RamblingCTO 14 hours ago [-]
Not sure why everyone read this as me doing anything here, I'm a fractional CTO, which is kind of an advisor. Nothing invaluable will be lost tho. It's not the core platform, just a localized version for specific customers in the region.
SirFatty 15 hours ago [-]
You don't already have a DR plan in place?
RamblingCTO 14 hours ago [-]
Of course, no worries. Nothing irreplaceable will be lost ;) It was meant as a general example to be used in future arguments for everybody in tech leadership.
chinathrow 17 hours ago [-]
Any backups?
TacticalCoder 16 hours ago [-]
> Any backups?
Yup something has to be said too about good old offline backups on fat tapes.
tonyedgecombe 16 hours ago [-]
In the eighties my friends and I used to think we would be the first to go in a nuclear strike because we were close to an American air base. Now I have to worry about living close to an Amazon data centre.
xer 16 hours ago [-]
Lesson learned: If your recovery plan requires calling any API in the dead region — to detach an IP, describe a route table, launch an instance, read an S3 object, or decrypt a volume — it will fail when you need it most.
Every dependency on the primary region is a dependency on the thing that just broke.
jleyank 16 hours ago [-]
Hmmm. We’ve seen the fun that comes from cutting data cables and pipelines. Think that’s been factored in with the asymmetric warfare coming from the Middle East? Perhaps some network assaults as well?
Krugman has pointed out that modern war is bloody expensive. Perhaps resistance will just be helping burn money? Lots of motivated people on one side. And I hope countries are being careful, as a Thirty Years War in the Middle East would suck.
kevincloudsec 11 hours ago [-]
the DR test isn't 'can we run in region B.' it's 'can we cut over to region B when every API call to region A returns a timeout.' most recovery plans assume they can still reach the thing that just broke
> Two facilities in the United Arab Emirates sustained direct hits, while a third facility in Bahrain was damaged by a drone strike "in close proximity,"
Also to add context: AWS has contracts with the US military: "The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract enables AWS to continue providing Department of Defense (DoD) customers with secure, reliable, and mission-critical cloud services." https://aws.amazon.com/federal/defense/jwcc/ Making them a target for retaliation ofc.
WJW 17 hours ago [-]
Amazon is an extremely visible American company, hitting their assets carries a symbolic meaning even if the DoD wouldn't have anything running on that datacentre at all. Iran's trying to transmit a message of "we can destroy your stuff too", trying to impact the general US feeling of invulnerability.
I don't think it'll work, but they might as well try I guess.
randunel 17 hours ago [-]
> trying to impact the general US feeling of invulnerability
Or, perhaps, trying to defend themselves? They are being attacked, after all.
nixon_why69 17 hours ago [-]
It's both, this particular counter-attack is aimed at morale rather than specifically a base launching sorties against them.
Ultimately, this war ends when America loses the political will to continue, so morale is a strategic objective for them.
dotancohen 17 hours ago [-]
That's why they've been hitting residential buildings and hotels as well? They assume that because their proxies (Hamas, Hezbollah) hide in civilian structures, so does the US army?
All these attempts to justify Iranian terror demonstrate just how deep Qatari influence online has been. And even Qatar is being attacked by Iran now.
kasey_junk 17 hours ago [-]
Is Hezbollah hiding in the elementary school that got bombed? Perhaps that’s where the Iranian nuclear research was done?
We attacked them. Full stop. And as far as I can tell we haven’t given them any conditions for when we will stop bombing them. In what moral framework do you have to just accept another sovereign, a vastly more powerful one, invading your country without fighting back?
ta20240528 16 hours ago [-]
I can't guess what the USA wants other than a distraction from the raping-of- children saga, but I bet Israel would settle for "we acknowledge your right to exist and won't fund or encourage organisations that plan to harm you."
If Saudi Arabia can get there…
kasey_junk 16 hours ago [-]
The world has seen what Israel does when they’re attacked. They don’t get to set moral frameworks anymore.
ta20240528 16 hours ago [-]
Agreed. But that wasn't the OP's question.
dotancohen 11 hours ago [-]
Who in your opinion sets the moral framework for defending oneself against an enemy which has sworn genocide and proven capable of destroying entire peaceful villages along their borders?
arbitrary_name 4 hours ago [-]
you're describing Israel here, right?
dotancohen 60 minutes ago [-]
Which village in Gaza do you consider to have been peaceful?
pydry 7 hours ago [-]
israel will never be reasonable. we can bully them or appease them but they cannot be reasoned with.
appeasement is seemingly having the same effect it did when chamberlain did it.
Symbiote 8 hours ago [-]
It's not quite as clear-cut as it might first seem.
The school was either within or bordering a military barracks, depending which way you wish to spin it.
Al-Jazeera's article has obvious bias, but plenty of pictures and diagrams:
The primary condition is giving up nuclear ambitions.
randunel 7 hours ago [-]
Quid pro quo? Whoever requests that of others must do the same.
LAC-Tech 16 hours ago [-]
It is too late, Israel already has nuclear weapons.
nxm 7 hours ago [-]
Israel doesn’t want to wipe off Iran off the map, unlike Iran’s stance
LAC-Tech 4 hours ago [-]
Hasbara.
Over 20 years ago the president of Iran talked about "the regime occupying jerusalem must dissappear from the pages of time".
IE they want regime change in Israel - which is exactly what the Israelis want in Iran.
The difference is Iran is a more responsible international actor and has not started two wars based on this pretext.
So yes, I trust a nuclear armed Iran much, much more than I trust a nuclear armed Israel.
latentsea 2 hours ago [-]
You'd trust a country that funds terrorist organizations with nukes? Let's not put you in charge...
LAC-Tech 2 hours ago [-]
Israel funded terrorist organisations in Syria, and in Palestine itself - most famously the group Hamas.
Many of the terrorist groups Iran funds operates in areas illegally occupied by the Israeli military, making them legitimate resistance fighters.
And Israel itself is a terrorist state - they achieved independence via the actions of Jewish terrorist groups in Palestine like Igrun, Lehi - which included several future Israeli Prime Ministers as members.
So no, I do not trust Israel with nukes - they should be disarmed immediately.
cced 16 hours ago [-]
> We attacked them
During negotiations, for the second time.
dotancohen 13 hours ago [-]
Negotiations during which the Iranians continuously stalled and continued their nuclear work. The threat of attack was part of the US negotiation strategy, and the Iranians thought they would call the "bluff". They were wrong.
LAC-Tech 4 hours ago [-]
Gentiles have a right to defend themselves.
throw-the-towel 16 hours ago [-]
> They assume that because their proxies (Hamas, Hezbollah) hide in civilian structures, so does the US army?
> Two US Defense Department employees were wounded when an Iranian drone struck a hotel in Bahrain's capital Manama, The Washington Post reported Monday.
dotancohen 11 hours ago [-]
Are you suggesting that two people sleeping in a hotel makes the hotel a valid military target? Because people have been telling Israelis for years that hospitals, mosques, residential apartment buildings, and schools from which rockets are stored and launched are not valid military targets, even when these activities are supported by the building administration and the rocket handlers are clearly visible.
bayindirh 16 hours ago [-]
I believe they have warned that any country offering support will be targeted, even before the attacks began.
So they are cowards if they do what they say, and they are cowards if they don't do anything.
What should they do? Evacuate the country and offer the land for free?
lyu07282 16 hours ago [-]
> All these attempts to justify Iranian terror
At the end of the day you have to understand the reality that Iran is a sovereign nation that is going to defend itself. And yes they are hitting residential buildings and hotels with US military personnel present. None of this is terrorism, this is a nation state retaliating after an attack on their nation, you have to understand this basic concept, actions have consequences.
This is not propaganda, you are just willfully ignorant. If you want to destroy Iran you have to take retaliation into account, everything else is just propaganda, what do you expect them to do instead? Just lie down and take it?
You can't use retaliation of the nation you attacked as justification of why the attack was justified, its circular logic, this is textbook propaganda you are repeating.
LAC-Tech 16 hours ago [-]
I genuinetely do not think Hasbara like this works anymore. The overton window on this has irrevocably shifted since 2023 and it would be a better strategy for you to live within this new reality, rather than making ludicrous claims that the middle eastern country most vehemently trying to shape western views on the region is... Qatar. It just comes across as an obvious projection, and only encourages sentiment that has a real potential to become harmful to you personally.
That is, unless posts like thos are designed to encourage that sentiment, which I sometimes suspect.
dotancohen 11 hours ago [-]
I read the news in English and Arabic. If you don't think that Qatar is heavily influencing US university, college, and online sentiment, then I highly suggest that you start reading Arabic news. The Qataris talk about both their intentions and their successes in shaping Western, especially American, public opinion.
lyu07282 10 hours ago [-]
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dotancohen 9 hours ago [-]
Instead of claiming "whatever bullshit you come up with" at me, go search for Qatari influence in English too. I prefer Qatari sources in Arabic because then one cannot claim a biased source, but for those who can not read Arabic there is ample English language discussion.
Here's just the first two Google results, enjoy, there's quite a few more from both sides of the US political divide if you would like to start nitpicking sources.
I think this shifted overtone window has partially to do with why they started this war to begin with, they see the writing on the wall and their window of opportunity is closing. Trump is at historic lows in polling [1]; 65% of democrats now sympathize more with Palestinians over Israelis (17%) [2]. HN is just a generally reactionary place, I wouldn't read to much into that.
I mean if you want to put your geopolitical blinkers on, sure...but how to beat America is old news at this point: cause casualties however you can, and wait for the US to give up.
Complain about it all you want but what are you going to do? The US is already bombing them.
Perhaps all of this goes into the big bucket labelled "war is expensive and unpredictable, maybe try diplomacy?"
Which the current administration has made a note of promptly tearing up prior agreements with everyone anyway so...whoops I guess.
weird_tentacles 9 hours ago [-]
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keybored 17 hours ago [-]
America is so unused to being attacked (counter-attacked) that this needs to be explained apparently.
avereveard 17 hours ago [-]
they have been engaging in hybrid warfare for decade+ they don't get to play victim this is the result of their continued proxy attacks
tzahifadida 17 hours ago [-]
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orwin 16 hours ago [-]
They can make it very expensive though. And they can't negotiate, given it's the second time they are attacked during negotiations, so really, what can they do? Cause the most chaos possible around them, strain the relationships between the US and other ME countries, force the US to make a choice about which ally to protect (it will be Saudi Arabia), make the oil price go up and deplete US weapon stocks. If the force the US and Israel to put boots on the ground, they will have won.
tzahifadida 16 hours ago [-]
In WW-II, the US bombed the hell out of German forces for months on end. That is what people do not understand. The US have the capability to generate bombs indefinitely. There will be no boots on the ground for soldiers (they wish). They will just get pulverised as time goes by. If the US and Israel will think they cannot get to their thick skull they'll simply bomb the oil refineries and let the Iranian regime deal with paychecks from their street goons and fanatics who will eat them alive.
nixon_why69 15 hours ago [-]
Its not bombs that are running out, its interceptors. The 12 day war exhausted 25% of american stocks, we're on day 3 of this round, do the math.
What happens to Israel when the interceptors run out and they're on equal standing with Iranian/Palestinian/Lebanese civilians?
bayindirh 16 hours ago [-]
> The US have the capability to generate bombs indefinitely.
The same US which had to re-build and re-open factories to be able to support Ukraine, and had an important shortage of shells for some time?
The same US talking with their allies to build ships for them?
US generals said that their defensive munition is not infinite. Middle Eastern countries said that they have Patriot stockpiles for 4 days.
We're past WWII. Nobody has that capacity anymore. Some of the tech and factories built these gigantic battle cruisers are not present anymore even.
US may, and can pulverize Iran if they want, but it'll be much more expensive than WWII era, because of how interconnected the world is now, and this is how post-WWII world has been designated. Make everyone depend on everyone, and make war very expensive as a result.
bayindirh 17 hours ago [-]
> I don't think it'll work, but they might as well try I guess.
Consider this from the eyes of the people living there. Your world is peaceful one day and burning tomorrow. It doesn't have to be "burning like hell", but something came from the sky, entered your building, exploded and damaged some stuff to the extent that fire-supression triggered and damaged more things.
Even if it's not a trauma, it's a shock. Something you'll be remembering for a long time. We live in fragile bubbles, but don't know it until we experience it pop. While this might not make them "win" the war, it'll leave a mark and make the affected persons' ears perch up to understand what's happening better.
Please note, I'm not from either side. I'm a close observer because of where I live, and still believe that this should have not happened.
seydor 17 hours ago [-]
Especially when 90% of the population are immigrants having no emotional ties to the ground
bayindirh 17 hours ago [-]
Yeah, it'll definitely trigger "why am I here and putting up with this" response in some people, and that's a breaking point for many of them.
eb0la 16 hours ago [-]
Not just Amazon - I guess the Oil and gas industry is now run on the cloud.
They used to have big SGI machines 30 years ago... but I bet everything is on the cloud now using GPUs.
bayindirh 16 hours ago [-]
I tend to believe that they still have their own clusters. For speed and privacy reasons. You don't want to give away the location of the oil you have found.
arbitrary_name 4 hours ago [-]
i have helped several major oil and companies migrate core infrastructure to the cloud.
plus, by the time you steal data relating to seismic surveys and reservoir analysis, you're years to late to exploit it as a competitor.
globalnode 17 hours ago [-]
us govt and big business have always worked hand in hand, they compliment each other.
tsimionescu 17 hours ago [-]
They complement each other too, which is more impactul than any compliments they might send.
butler14 17 hours ago [-]
Any chance this is causing the claude issues directly/indirectly?
US tax dollars blowing up US tax dollars. Lockheed Martin and Boeing stonks go up.
astrange 7 hours ago [-]
Generally speaking defense contractors do not make more money during wars, because we start asking them to make low-margin realistic stuff, whereas in peace time we get bored and start paying them to design imaginary superweapons.
But we also usually don't blow up our own planes I suppose.
joe_mamba 7 hours ago [-]
>Generally speaking defense contractors do not make more money during wars
US economy is not in war mode right now in order to ask its contractors to make cheap stuff.
BlobberSnobber 16 hours ago [-]
It wasn't the US attacking the UAE, just FYI.
hagbard_c 9 hours ago [-]
Typical BBC reporting: Amazon's cloud computing business says drones have hit three of its facilities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain following US and Israeli strikes against Iran at the weekend. The incidents occurred on Sunday morning, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) saying at the time that ''objects'' had hit a data centre in the UAE, creating ''sparks and fire''. Also on Sunday, AWS said it was investigating power and connectivity issues at a facility in Bahrain. On Monday, the company confirmed that drone strikes had caused the outages.
Notice how they do not mention that the facilities were damaged by Iranian attacks on the UAE and Bahrain but following US and Israeli strikes against Iran at the weekend.
hagbard_c 8 hours ago [-]
Somewhat OT but it remains remarkable how the knee-jerk down-vote-button brigade feels the need to vote down a totally unrelated post on getting a refund for a Microsoft Home Server [1] and one on the relation between hardware + low-level systems software capabilities versus applications software just because I happened to voice an opinion outside of their desired narrative. Grow up, people. If your opinions are so weakly founded that you feel the need to 'punish' those who dare to voice dissent you should get some more soundly founded ones.
Finally, I have a very good argument for multi-region deployments ;))
that's my go to website atm: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
"How often do those happen?"
So if data won't be recoverable you all will mark it something like "Status: FUBAR" or some equivalent term?
IMO, if you're using AWS and not replicating your data somewhere else, this should be an eye-opener for you.
Yup something has to be said too about good old offline backups on fat tapes.
Every dependency on the primary region is a dependency on the thing that just broke.
Krugman has pointed out that modern war is bloody expensive. Perhaps resistance will just be helping burn money? Lots of motivated people on one side. And I hope countries are being careful, as a Thirty Years War in the Middle East would suck.
> Two facilities in the United Arab Emirates sustained direct hits, while a third facility in Bahrain was damaged by a drone strike "in close proximity,"
Also to add context: AWS has contracts with the US military: "The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract enables AWS to continue providing Department of Defense (DoD) customers with secure, reliable, and mission-critical cloud services." https://aws.amazon.com/federal/defense/jwcc/ Making them a target for retaliation ofc.
I don't think it'll work, but they might as well try I guess.
Or, perhaps, trying to defend themselves? They are being attacked, after all.
Ultimately, this war ends when America loses the political will to continue, so morale is a strategic objective for them.
All these attempts to justify Iranian terror demonstrate just how deep Qatari influence online has been. And even Qatar is being attacked by Iran now.
We attacked them. Full stop. And as far as I can tell we haven’t given them any conditions for when we will stop bombing them. In what moral framework do you have to just accept another sovereign, a vastly more powerful one, invading your country without fighting back?
If Saudi Arabia can get there…
appeasement is seemingly having the same effect it did when chamberlain did it.
The school was either within or bordering a military barracks, depending which way you wish to spin it.
Al-Jazeera's article has obvious bias, but plenty of pictures and diagrams:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/3/questions-over-minab...
Over 20 years ago the president of Iran talked about "the regime occupying jerusalem must dissappear from the pages of time".
IE they want regime change in Israel - which is exactly what the Israelis want in Iran.
The difference is Iran is a more responsible international actor and has not started two wars based on this pretext.
So yes, I trust a nuclear armed Iran much, much more than I trust a nuclear armed Israel.
Many of the terrorist groups Iran funds operates in areas illegally occupied by the Israeli military, making them legitimate resistance fighters.
And Israel itself is a terrorist state - they achieved independence via the actions of Jewish terrorist groups in Palestine like Igrun, Lehi - which included several future Israeli Prime Ministers as members.
So no, I do not trust Israel with nukes - they should be disarmed immediately.
During negotiations, for the second time.
> Two US Defense Department employees were wounded when an Iranian drone struck a hotel in Bahrain's capital Manama, The Washington Post reported Monday.
So they are cowards if they do what they say, and they are cowards if they don't do anything.
What should they do? Evacuate the country and offer the land for free?
At the end of the day you have to understand the reality that Iran is a sovereign nation that is going to defend itself. And yes they are hitting residential buildings and hotels with US military personnel present. None of this is terrorism, this is a nation state retaliating after an attack on their nation, you have to understand this basic concept, actions have consequences.
This is not propaganda, you are just willfully ignorant. If you want to destroy Iran you have to take retaliation into account, everything else is just propaganda, what do you expect them to do instead? Just lie down and take it?
You can't use retaliation of the nation you attacked as justification of why the attack was justified, its circular logic, this is textbook propaganda you are repeating.
That is, unless posts like thos are designed to encourage that sentiment, which I sometimes suspect.
Here's just the first two Google results, enjoy, there's quite a few more from both sides of the US political divide if you would like to start nitpicking sources.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3334519/elite-us-uni...
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5334791-qatars-us-...
[1] https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-sil...
[2] https://news.gallup.com/poll/702440/israelis-no-longer-ahead...
Complain about it all you want but what are you going to do? The US is already bombing them.
Perhaps all of this goes into the big bucket labelled "war is expensive and unpredictable, maybe try diplomacy?"
Which the current administration has made a note of promptly tearing up prior agreements with everyone anyway so...whoops I guess.
What happens to Israel when the interceptors run out and they're on equal standing with Iranian/Palestinian/Lebanese civilians?
The same US which had to re-build and re-open factories to be able to support Ukraine, and had an important shortage of shells for some time?
The same US talking with their allies to build ships for them?
US generals said that their defensive munition is not infinite. Middle Eastern countries said that they have Patriot stockpiles for 4 days.
We're past WWII. Nobody has that capacity anymore. Some of the tech and factories built these gigantic battle cruisers are not present anymore even.
US may, and can pulverize Iran if they want, but it'll be much more expensive than WWII era, because of how interconnected the world is now, and this is how post-WWII world has been designated. Make everyone depend on everyone, and make war very expensive as a result.
Consider this from the eyes of the people living there. Your world is peaceful one day and burning tomorrow. It doesn't have to be "burning like hell", but something came from the sky, entered your building, exploded and damaged some stuff to the extent that fire-supression triggered and damaged more things.
Even if it's not a trauma, it's a shock. Something you'll be remembering for a long time. We live in fragile bubbles, but don't know it until we experience it pop. While this might not make them "win" the war, it'll leave a mark and make the affected persons' ears perch up to understand what's happening better.
Please note, I'm not from either side. I'm a close observer because of where I live, and still believe that this should have not happened.
plus, by the time you steal data relating to seismic surveys and reservoir analysis, you're years to late to exploit it as a competitor.
> Strikes hit AWS datacenter
> Antropic aided strikes causes Anthropic outage lol
[1] https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-strikes-2026/card/u-s-...
[0] https://newrepublic.com/post/207197/us-shoots-three-fighter-...
But we also usually don't blow up our own planes I suppose.
US economy is not in war mode right now in order to ask its contractors to make cheap stuff.
Notice how they do not mention that the facilities were damaged by Iranian attacks on the UAE and Bahrain but following US and Israeli strikes against Iran at the weekend.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234722
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47235349