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They had nine years and more money than god to build redundancy in an unstable region.

• nomel 20d ago
  If it's an unstable region, then it might not result in a good return, especially since a blown up data center is 100% loss.
  • lostlogin 20d ago
    This is focusing in too close. Bezos has been working with Trump. The instability has been hugely exacerbated by Trump. The issue lies at home.
    • jojobas 20d ago
      Yeah, Iran blowing up half the Middle East? Totally Bezos' fault.
• wmf 20d ago
  They did build redundancy but most of it was bombed.
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    • seizethecheese 20d ago
      > genocide datacenters
      • mitxela 20d ago
        AWS is one of the biggest military contractors, they're a valid target
      • recursivegirth 20d ago
        [Palantir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palant%C3%ADr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palant%C3%ADr) would like a word.
        • simondotau 20d ago
          Moral condemnation has little coercive force unless it is backed by material power.
    • thesmtsolver2 20d ago
      IDF wants to exterminate Bahrain and UAE?
      • mitxela 20d ago
        Evidence so far suggests yes, actually.
• jaggederest 20d ago
  If they're region-locking data appropriately (i.e. for people to comply with domestic storage / gdpr-style requirements) they really can't. Bahrain is only about 300 square miles / 80k hectares. They could, of course, open other regional data centers in other countries, or say "data in this geo zone may be in any of X, Y or Z" countries, but for the latter that pretty starkly limits some of the major customers they'd have, I would guess, and for the former, well, they have other geo zones already, so if people weren't replicating to them, I'm not sure why adding me-east-1 me-west-1 me-central-1 would fix that issue, they just wouldn't replicate there either.