Iranian strikes on Amazon data centers highlight industry's vulnerability

juliusceasar a day ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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kevincloudsec a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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 a day ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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BatFastard a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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!

	▲	general1465 19 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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-f...
	▲	nosrepa a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I thought space was the plan?

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ChrisArchitect a day ago | parent | prev [-]

March 3rd post OP;

Related discussion at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47209781