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Seems to be the biggest outage yet. Might be related to power loss events in UAE timing is suspicious as more datacenters appear to be hit.

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If you look at their status page, something has been bubbling for the past week

https://status.claude.com

Never noticed it being outright down like this except for today (and yesterday), never had actual downtime except for few failed requests that worked after a retry which coincides with AWS datacenters going offline.

> Might be related to power loss events in UAE timing is suspicious as more datacenters appear to be hit.

More datacenters? I thought it was just one.

The strikes are actually still ongoing afaik.

Latest news I could find on it: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-data-centers-middle-e...

> Two facilities in the United Arab Emirates sustained direct hits, while a third facility in Bahrain was damaged by a drone strike "in close proximity,"

Also to add context: AWS has contracts with the US military: "The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract enables AWS to continue providing Department of Defense (DoD) customers with secure, reliable, and mission-critical cloud services." https://aws.amazon.com/federal/defense/jwcc/ Making them a target for retaliation ofc.

friends in the middle east have said that there have been a few missiles flying overhead, possibly reduced media coverage as it is an ongoing operation.

A not particularly large AWS region on the other side of the world? Doubt it.

well there has been pretty large deals going on in UAE especially when it comes to AI since they can get any power capacity with a flick of their fingers for an unbeatable price and the latency in AI doesn't really matter since the first token is usually seconds anyway. And it's not just AWS it's the entire region.

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