Any chance this is causing the claude issues directly/indirectly?

wongarsu 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I find it more likely that Anthropic has rented space in other data centers in the region that were also impacted by Iranian retaliation

LAC-Tech 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why would they funnel all their traffic to a middle eastern AZ?

Capacity is tight, you serve from where you can.

Probably also because most token use cases are not latency sensitive. A 200ms extra delay isn't going to change much for most use cases.

	▲	anamexis 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Right, so if they were able to get a discount in UAE…

lyu07282 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Most people assume its because of the influx in chatgpt users switching to claude. 295% daily uninstall hike of ChatGPT: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/chatgpt-uninstalls-surged-...

joe_mamba 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> U.S. Military Using Anthropic for Middle East Airstrikes[1]

> Strikes hit AWS datacenter

> Antropic aided strikes causes Anthropic outage lol

tamirzb 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This comment makes it seem as if it's the US who striked the Amazon data center.

The US lost 3 of its own fighter jets yesterday due to friendly fire[0], is it out of the realm of possibility?

	▲	joe_mamba 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		US tax dollars blowing up US tax dollars. Lockheed Martin and Boeing stonks go up.

It wasn't the US attacking the UAE, just FYI.