me-south-1 is in fact, quite possibly permanently, "offline".

londons_explore 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm kinda surprised Amazon didn't send a team to collect all storage devices from the wreckage and ship them elsewhere to be connected to the network for recovery.

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SG- 2 hours ago | parent [-]

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

	▲	swiftcoder 12 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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.
	▲	londons_explore 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		War zones tend to have lots of people in already, and many of them really want a job.
	▲	stickfigure an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		1.5M civilians already live in Bahrain. This usage makes the term "war zone" meaningless.