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

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  1. cmiles8 · · 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 · · focus · HN ↗
      He forgot to add &quot;if it&#x27;s Multi-AZ&quot; ;)
      1. bdangubic · · focus · HN ↗
        multi-AZ doesn’t help against multi-AZ drones :)
        1. dzonga · · 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&#x27;re in us-east, then your back-ups should ideally be in eu-west + africa for redundancy.

          1. pianopatrick · · focus · HN ↗
            &quot;Black Swan&quot; would be a good name for an attack drone
            1. TeMPOraL · · focus · HN ↗
              Along with &quot;Outside Context&quot;, &quot;Tail Risk&quot;, &quot;Impossible to Predict&quot;, &quot;Force Majeure&quot; and &quot;Spanish Inquisition&quot;.
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