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  • Ex AWS. AWS had one zone specific products. If those were in the affected AZ that data is lost. AWS has multiple multi-AZ products. S3 and EFS are good examples. If you loose an AZ for an extended periodic of time, the dataplane of those services will migrate shards around until you get back to your durability goals.
    by harshaw
  • I think people are overthinking this. I'm the first one to criticize AWS (I run a competitor, carolinacloud.io) but I don't think we should hold it against them when they lost data due to their hard drives being physically bombed.
    by bojangleslover
  • They guaranteed 11 9's durability, didn't they?

    e: Yep

    https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/

    by curuinor
  • The data center layout should look something like this:

        me (Middle East)
    ├── me-south-1 (Bahrain) DOWN since 2026-04
    │   ├── mes1-az1 DOWN
    │   │   └── mes1-mct1-az1 (Oman, Muscat) ???
    │   ├── mes1-az2 DOWN since 2026-03-01
    │   └── mes1-az3 DOWN
    ├── me-central-1 (United Arab Emirates)
    │   ├── mec1-az1
    │   ├── mec1-az2 DOWN since 2026-03-01
    │   └── mec1-az3         DOWN since 2026-03-01
    └── il-central-1 (Israel, Tel Aviv)
        ├── ilc1-az1
        ├── ilc1-az2
        └── ilc1-az3
    Not sure about the Muscat local zone, whole me-south-1 region has been reported down despite Muscat still being operational.

    If someone had told me a year ago that a whole AWS region could go down I'd called them crazy, but now me is close to exactly that happening.

    See also previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033240

    by weinzierl
  • 11.3 Force Majeure. Except for payment obligations, neither party nor any of their affiliates will be liable for any delay or failure to perform any obligation under this Agreement where the delay or failure results from any cause beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, labor disputes or other industrial disturbances, electrical or power outages, utilities or other telecommunications failures, earthquake, storms or other elements of nature, blockages, embargoes, riots, acts or orders of government, acts of terrorism, or war.
    by gilbetron
  • When doing Disaster Recovery (DR) planning as a SRE in the New York City area, I sometimes use the phrase "Hurricane Sandy 2" to describe an event so big that it knocks out the power/compute/etc for an entire region.

    I may just start using AWS Bahrain 2 as an additional example.

    by alexpotato
  • I think this is due to the data residency requirements in UAE. I'm working with a client in the health space and the government requirements requires me to store data only in UAE! Tried with AWS but they were not allowing any new instances and I had to go with Azure.
    by rishikeshs
  • 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!"

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cloud-computing-loudoun-county-...

    by cmiles8

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