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AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

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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. sparkling · 1789597551 · focus · HN ↗
  He forgot to add "if it's Multi-AZ" ;)
  1. bdangubic · 1789598648 · focus · HN ↗
    multi-AZ doesn’t help against multi-AZ drones :)
    dzonga · 1789602932 · focus · HN ↗
    black swan events.
    this is one of one of those things - were in the current era either a cloud provider should provide automatic backups in another geographic zone.
    if you're in us-east, then your back-ups should ideally be in eu-west + africa for redundancy.
    ern · 1789604929 · focus · HN ↗
    The minute you cross borders you run into data sovereignty concerns. No idea if it applies at the subnational level (US states, Emirates in the UAE etc) but it wouldn't surprise me if it did in some cases.
    ployable7 · 1789612533 · focus · HN ↗
    It applies subnationally. Think about different gambling laws per US state, and if you’re running the infrastructure for that across state lines.

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