AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on

nerdsniper

I'm surprised this reportedly only affected 19 server racks. Some of the small FPV quadcopter strikes I've seen videos of have collapsed entire homes. Even if the structure is more resilient than a fragile home, I would have expected the blast from a larger long-range drone like a Shahed to damage more server racks than that.

time0ut

Data centers are such great targets in modern warfare. A few cheap drones can inflict billions in damage with low direct casualties (if the attacker even cares). I have heard AWS in particular is secretive about the exact location of their data centers, but no doubt every major country knows exactly where they are.

logickkk1

"Stops billing" makes it sound generous. If those regions can't run customer apps, not charging for them is just the minimum.

juliusceasar

Thanks 2nd Epstein War for all the fuck up in the world.

neuroelectron

When I was working at AWS, which was a new service at the time, the example we often heard was a natural disaster or comet strike; would be what we were making our data centers redundant for. I don't think we were ever considered to be targeted during war and I'm sure they considered that they just didn't want to that affect that morale cost on the staff.

opengrass

ZOMG free egress!?!?

BLKNSLVR

At least the war itself is over: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/01/trump-congress-war-... Now, about those fuel prices...

aggakake

Bezos getting what he paid for

SanjayMehta

How is this possible? Iran's Navy, Air Force, power plants, hospitals, colleges, universities and most importantly little girl's schools were obliterated in the first 42 minutes of Trump's war.

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