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I'm surprised you'd think sending civilians into a war zone is a good thing.

• londons_explore 2mo ago
  War zones tend to have lots of people in already, and many of them really want a job.
• stickfigure 2mo ago
  1.5M civilians already live in Bahrain. This usage makes the term "war zone" meaningless.
• swiftcoder 2mo ago
  It's not like Amazon doesn't have tactical teams on call - if that was a priority, I'm sure it would have been done. But like any good datacenter provider, they have offsite backups, and I'd expect the damaged hardware will just be written off.
  • easton 2mo ago
    The company line has been that they expect you to have your own backups in a region outside of the Middle East or you’re hosed until they can turn the (now destroyed) buildings back on. I wonder if AWS even has the capacity to keep an entire region’s data elsewhere if they wanted to (I mean they could with their margins, but I doubt they do.)
    • swiftcoder 2mo ago
      Yeah, they have backups of their shit, not your shit. If you don’t use their cross-region backups, I don’t know what to tell you. Even us-east-1 isn’t entirely immune to disasters manmade or otherwise…
• Der_Einzige 2mo ago
  With how overpaid and with how poorly the average AWS employee treats those around them (especially their colleagues), I think a little bit of real action is massively overdue for the average AWS peon. Please ship them to a war zone! Please!!! Earn those bananas! Bezos isn't rich enough yet! Work harder!