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To my knowledge, services hosted on AWS are not blocked in Iran. Also, if that were the case, literally have the internet would cease to function w/o VPN, whic

To my knowledge, services hosted on AWS are not blocked in Iran. Also, if that were the case, literally have the internet would cease to function w/o VPN, which should give pause to those who would shrug off such a policy.

dijit 6y ago
I just checked and they are. Unless someone is fronting them with a transparent reverse proxy inside Iran, those services will be unavailable. Blocked on AWS’s side as part of their compliance with US sanctions.
DetroitThrow 6y ago
>To my knowledge, services hosted on AWS are not blocked in Iran. Your knowledge is blatantly wrong, despite multiple people telling you otherwise: https://reclaimthenet.org/amazon-aws-iran-proxies-vpn-sanctions/ https://reclaimthenet.org/amazon-aws-iran-proxies-vpn-sancti...
- miracle2k 6y ago
  This article is talking about Iranians being able to use AWS to host services. We are talking about services I host on AWS being accessible in Iran without a VPN.
  - dijit 6y ago
    Those are also blocked, but I genuinely implore you to make an Iranian friend (somehow) and ask them what works. For myself, I saw my users go to zero when I migrated to AWS+GCP over my European based co-location provider. I was hosting services that had 30,000~ monthly active users from Iran at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Iran#United_States_sanctions_on_Iran_and_Internet_censorship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Iran#Un...
    - miracle2k 6y ago
      Admittedly, it's been a couple of months since I've been to Iran, so I just asked a friend in Mashad. He confirmed to me that my websites, running on a Kubernetes cluster on EC2 in the eu-west-1 are accessible without a VPN. Maybe your issue was due to use of GCP? I moved all my stuff to AWS specifically because Google Cloud does have this kind of block. I care about this a lot, so if your friends in Iran have different things to report, let's look into it to figure out what is going on.

dijit 6y ago

I just checked and they are. Unless someone is fronting them with a transparent reverse proxy inside Iran, those services will be unavailable. Blocked on AWS’s side as part of their compliance with US sanctions.

DetroitThrow 6y ago

>To my knowledge, services hosted on AWS are not blocked in Iran. Your knowledge is blatantly wrong, despite multiple people telling you otherwise: https://reclaimthenet.org/amazon-aws-iran-proxies-vpn-sanctions/ https://reclaimthenet.org/amazon-aws-iran-proxies-vpn-sancti...

miracle2k 6y ago
This article is talking about Iranians being able to use AWS to host services. We are talking about services I host on AWS being accessible in Iran without a VPN.
- dijit 6y ago
  Those are also blocked, but I genuinely implore you to make an Iranian friend (somehow) and ask them what works. For myself, I saw my users go to zero when I migrated to AWS+GCP over my European based co-location provider. I was hosting services that had 30,000~ monthly active users from Iran at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Iran#United_States_sanctions_on_Iran_and_Internet_censorship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Iran#Un...
  - miracle2k 6y ago
    Admittedly, it's been a couple of months since I've been to Iran, so I just asked a friend in Mashad. He confirmed to me that my websites, running on a Kubernetes cluster on EC2 in the eu-west-1 are accessible without a VPN. Maybe your issue was due to use of GCP? I moved all my stuff to AWS specifically because Google Cloud does have this kind of block. I care about this a lot, so if your friends in Iran have different things to report, let's look into it to figure out what is going on.