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> we will ensure we restore power and connectivity safely

this would require human intervention and I am a bit worried what if the strike can happen again and human lives might be lost.

IIRC there have been cases in history where sometimes a same location is targeted across multiple days. Obviously, AWS might have local employees working in the region but would there be an evaluation of this threat itself within the relevant team in AWS. What if they try to bring the service back but then missiles are struck again and what if human lives might be lost on it. Let's just hope that it could be part of a evaluation as well.

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I wouldn't risk it.

Both Americans and Israelis are known for double taps. Surely Iran can adapt their tactics too.

But I mean,are the employees safe at home? I guess if the really targeted the data center then home is safer, but in the fog of war maybe the data center wasn't the target?

> But I mean,are the employees safe at home? I guess if the really targeted the data center then home is safer, but in the fog of war maybe the data center wasn't the target?

My gut feeling says that they would be safer at homes than at datacenters. The only large info I have heard is attack on hotels, this datacenter etc. (atleast till right now).

> but in the fog of war maybe the data center wasn't the target?

We can't say this for sure but even if that was the case, I do think that they would see some damage was caused and then, try to double tap it for even more damage. So chances are, even if it wasn't the target previously, it might be the target now?

> this would require human intervention

Amazon has self-propelled robots that handle their logistics and fulfillment, don't they? Send in the robots.

> this would require human intervention

that's the difference between heroes and ordinary employees who bitch about having to go into the office twice a month.

same as the stories you hear of guys taking snow-cats up a mountain in a blizzard to restore phone circuits or radio transmitters gone offline.

Man, don’t be a “hero” trying to restore a lower ping to someone trying to buy a kindle in Jeddah.

What about local hospitals which may have service from that data center? There are heroes needed everywhere, all the time.

In that case, the hero was the person who avoided relying on a single AZ when they deployed to cloud.

100% absolutely but its a bit worrying if in the future multiple AZ/datacenters could be start to get targeted?

attacking datacenters within a particular region so that service would have a hard time.

I guess someone can use some other regions DC to have more than (regional?) AZ but for mission critical infra, I can see that having sometimes issue too and you genuinely can't predict any of all of this.

That being said, There should be more than one AZ reliance but IMO also off-site or multi-cloud backups should also be preferred/used as well.

Their lack of multiple AZ’s isn’t the guy making 30k a year’s problem.

> What about local hospitals which may have service from that data center? There are heroes needed everywhere, all the time.

Off-site backups/Multi Cloud Strategy while encrypting data (and keeping the key safe, key point) might be a better strategy for such mission critical infrastructure.

I'm sure bezos will be really happy someone is being a hero for him in a war zone while he sails his newest yacht to wherever the new version of the island is.

on second thought there is a difference between restoring critical infrastructure in times of crisis vs restoring bot infrastructure for indian spamming operations. choose wisely

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