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> this would require human intervention that's the difference between heroes and ordinary employees who bitch about having to go into the office twice a month.

> this would require human intervention that's the difference between heroes and ordinary employees who bitch about having to go into the office twice a month. same as the stories you hear of guys taking snow-cats up a mountain in a blizzard to restore phone circuits or radio transmitters gone offline.

flymasterv 8mo ago
Man, don’t be a “hero” trying to restore a lower ping to someone trying to buy a kindle in Jeddah.
- ok_dad 8mo ago
  What about local hospitals which may have service from that data center? There are heroes needed everywhere, all the time.
  - flymasterv 8mo ago
    Their lack of multiple AZ’s isn’t the guy making 30k a year’s problem.
  - stonogo 8mo ago
    In that case, the hero was the person who avoided relying on a single AZ when they deployed to cloud.
    - Imustaskforhelp 8mo ago
      100% absolutely but its a bit worrying if in the future multiple AZ/datacenters could be start to get targeted? attacking datacenters within a particular region so that service would have a hard time. I guess someone can use some other regions DC to have more than (regional?) AZ but for mission critical infra, I can see that having sometimes issue too and you genuinely can't predict any of all of this. That being said, There should be more than one AZ reliance but IMO also off-site or multi-cloud backups should also be preferred/used as well.
  - Imustaskforhelp 8mo ago
    > What about local hospitals which may have service from that data center? There are heroes needed everywhere, all the time. Off-site backups/Multi Cloud Strategy while encrypting data (and keeping the key safe, key point) might be a better strategy for such mission critical infrastructure.
thatguy0900 8mo ago
I'm sure bezos will be really happy someone is being a hero for him in a war zone while he sails his newest yacht to wherever the new version of the island is.
- tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
  on second thought there is a difference between restoring critical infrastructure in times of crisis vs restoring bot infrastructure for indian spamming operations. choose wisely

flymasterv 8mo ago

Man, don’t be a “hero” trying to restore a lower ping to someone trying to buy a kindle in Jeddah.

ok_dad 8mo ago
What about local hospitals which may have service from that data center? There are heroes needed everywhere, all the time.
- flymasterv 8mo ago
  Their lack of multiple AZ’s isn’t the guy making 30k a year’s problem.
- stonogo 8mo ago
  In that case, the hero was the person who avoided relying on a single AZ when they deployed to cloud.
  - Imustaskforhelp 8mo ago
    100% absolutely but its a bit worrying if in the future multiple AZ/datacenters could be start to get targeted? attacking datacenters within a particular region so that service would have a hard time. I guess someone can use some other regions DC to have more than (regional?) AZ but for mission critical infra, I can see that having sometimes issue too and you genuinely can't predict any of all of this. That being said, There should be more than one AZ reliance but IMO also off-site or multi-cloud backups should also be preferred/used as well.
- Imustaskforhelp 8mo ago
  > What about local hospitals which may have service from that data center? There are heroes needed everywhere, all the time. Off-site backups/Multi Cloud Strategy while encrypting data (and keeping the key safe, key point) might be a better strategy for such mission critical infrastructure.

thatguy0900 8mo ago

I'm sure bezos will be really happy someone is being a hero for him in a war zone while he sails his newest yacht to wherever the new version of the island is.

tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
on second thought there is a difference between restoring critical infrastructure in times of crisis vs restoring bot infrastructure for indian spamming operations. choose wisely