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Iranian strikes on Amazon data centers highlight industry's vulnerability

• juliusceasar 7mo ago
  Israel and USA provoked the destruction of so many people, just like Russia. Purest for of evil, nothing can be done against such an evil force.
• BatFastard 7mo ago
  Seems like a great opportunity for the "Boring Co" to start specializing in digging underground bunkers for data centers. You KNOW our AI Overlords are going to want it!
  • nosrepa 7mo ago
    I thought space was the plan?
  • general1465 7mo ago
    Datacenters under ground have similar problem to datacenters in the space - it is hard to cool them down. https://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/how-engineers-are-fighting-back-against-rising-temperatures-on-the-tube https://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/how-engineers-are-f...
• _slih 7mo ago
  cloud providers design for software failures and network partitions. they do not design for drone strikes. the redundancy model assumes your availability zones won't get hit by the same military operation.
  • calgoo 7mo ago
    Thats what regions are for... AZ downtime is one thing, if you loose the region, you should be able to bring up your services in another region.
• ChrisArchitect 7mo ago
  March 3rd post OP; Related discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47209781 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47209781
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