Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai

VoidWarranty

Not to be insensitive about the humanitarian and economic situation, but, I am curious why there are data centers in that region at all? It just seems horribly inefficient from a cooling and electricity standpoint. Not to mention water. My pessimistic assumption is that Amazon said "yes" to handouts from regional government efforts to be relevant in tech, and that those data centers dont really matter to anyone but local politicians and monarchs who believe they have a seat at the table.

ChrisArchitect

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632503

bawolff

I do think there is some irony that the Iran war took down all the AWS datacenters in the middle east except the one (or 3 i guess) in Israel, which is still chugging along. Like as a strategy its kind of weird. Iran plans to force Israel to stop by wrecking the economies of a bunch of countries that are basically frenemies of Israel? I suppose its meant to pressure USA, it just seems like a terrible strategy.

dmix

Pretty sure this is old news being repackaged

laweijfmvo

So can Amazon file a claim with the Us government for compensation? Does their insurance cover this? Or do they just eat the loss?

chasd00

So are the Azure data centers still up or do the Iranians just assume Azure will take itself offline eventually? Joking but I assume Microsoft (and Google) have a DC presence in the region too.

ks2048

Gonna have to update my boto3 code to deal with a new value for instance.state['Name'], "bombed".

amelius

That's going to put more pressure on RAM chip availability.

r0yadar

Does this count as offensive cyber?