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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. steveBK123 · 1789611385 · focus · HN ↗
  There's something reassuring in this for me.
  There's a lot of magic & handwaving from hyperscalers like AWS about redundancy. I always wondered about some of the engineering to make this absolutely (and literally) bullet proof. At the end of the day most of their answers when you push hard enough involved paying 2-3x to run everything across multiple zones/regions, and lots of awareness in your application to handle this.
  In any case, I think it's good that when a data center blows up the data is lost. Noteworthy for future skynet situation, etc.
  1. amelius · 1789637933 · focus · HN ↗
    They should have asked AI to implement the redundancy.
    paulddraper · 1789642926 · focus · HN ↗
    How would have that changed anything?
    steveBK123 · 1789643537 · focus · HN ↗
    First of all they could write an amazing slop blog PR post about it afterwards
    amelius · 1789643943 · focus · HN ↗
    If you still think AI produces slop then you aren't paying enough for your AI.
    steveBK123 · 1789644167 · focus · HN ↗
    Slop blog
    antonvs · 1789705798 · focus · HN ↗
    There’s a provider that’s more expensive than Anthropic?

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