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1. cmiles8 · 1789596948 · focus · HN ↗

   This interview with an AWS leader isn’t aging well, from CBS Sunday morning:

   Pogue asked, "I don't mean to give anyone ideas, but let's say I figured out that one of these unmarked buildings was an AWS data center, and I blew it up. Are you saying that it's so backed up and redundant that you probably wouldn't notice?" Wood replied, "Yeah, you wouldn't notice. I mean, we might be a bit upset, but you wouldn't notice!"

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   1. echoangle · 1789599282 · focus · HN ↗

      Isn’t the problem that multiple datacenters in one zone were blown up?

      1. nobodyandproud · 1789600481 · focus · HN ↗

         They had nine years and more money than god to build redundancy in an unstable region.

         1. nomel · 1789600747 · focus · HN ↗

            If it&#x27;s an unstable region, then it might not result in a good return, especially since a blown up data center is 100% loss.

            1. lostlogin · 1789623007 · focus · HN ↗

               This is focusing in too close.

               Bezos has been working with Trump. The instability has been hugely exacerbated by Trump. The issue lies at home.

               1. jojobas · 1789638304 · focus · HN ↗

                  Yeah, Iran blowing up half the Middle East? Totally Bezos&#x27; fault.
         2. wmf · 1789604626 · focus · HN ↗

            They did build redundancy but most of it was bombed.

            1. recursivegirth · 1789604980 · focus · HN ↗

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               1. anon48293 · 1789605565 · focus · HN ↗

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                  1. recursivegirth · 1789606472 · focus · HN ↗

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                  2. hackernud3s · 1789607378 · focus · HN ↗

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               2. seizethecheese · 1789605835 · focus · HN ↗

                  &gt; genocide datacenters

                  1. recursivegirth · 1789606536 · focus · HN ↗

                     [Palantir](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Palant%C3%ADr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Palant%C3%ADr) would like a word.

                     1. simondotau · 1789617396 · focus · HN ↗

                        Moral condemnation has little coercive force unless it is backed by material power.
                  2. mitxela · 1789625454 · focus · HN ↗

                     AWS is one of the biggest military contractors, they&#x27;re a valid target
               3. thesmtsolver2 · 1789606185 · focus · HN ↗

                  IDF wants to exterminate Bahrain and UAE?

                  1. mitxela · 1789625395 · focus · HN ↗

                     Evidence so far suggests yes, actually.
         3. jaggederest · 1789607397 · focus · HN ↗

            If they&#x27;re region-locking data appropriately (i.e. for people to comply with domestic storage &#x2F; gdpr-style requirements) they really can&#x27;t. Bahrain is only about 300 square miles &#x2F; 80k hectares.

            They could, of course, open other regional data centers in other countries, or say &quot;data in this geo zone may be in any of X, Y or Z&quot; countries, but for the latter that pretty starkly limits some of the major customers they&#x27;d have, I would guess, and for the former, well, they have other geo zones already, so if people weren&#x27;t replicating to them, I&#x27;m not sure why adding me-east-1 me-west-1 me-central-1 would fix that issue, they just wouldn&#x27;t replicate there either.

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