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Amazon’s cloud services are down in some of the Middle East after “objects” hit data centers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) causing “sparks and fire.” Around 60 services tied to AWS are down in the region, affecting web traffic in the UAE and Bahrain. The outage comes following Iranian attacks on the UAE as retaliation for US and Israeli strikes on Iran.
Customers in Bahrain and the UAE began to report outages tied to the mec1-az2 and mec1-az3 clusters in AWS’ ME-CENTRAL-1 Region on March 1 after Iranian ballistic missiles and drones struck targets in and around Dubai. Amazon did not confirm that AWS was down in the Middle East due to an Iranian attack and instead referred 404 Media to its online dashboard.
Source: https://www.404media.co/amazon-data-centers-on-fire-after-iranian-missile-strikes-on-dubai/
Dashboard: https://null/health/status
carbonr1
Oh noes...
MendoncycleSmith
Sorry, it's Amazon, they can all rot in hell. I have zero sympathy for anything related to anything Bezos ever touched, world raping shit stain.
kaijuuGold
yo is my order delayed then
backrideup9
Or Amazon shut down their servers so the world can't watch what Rump and Bibi are doing to Iranian children.
kahooki
THE RAM!
THE RAM!
cousteau
I know that saying "good, burn the entire company to the ground" is naive because it would mean taking down most of the internet, but still, I'm tempted to say it.
LargeMonty
Amazon has a space program remember.
lightfoot2
Why? These would be valid targets. There was a time when we were not going ho for war, that time is past
BikeTrailsAndWaggingTails
Dashboard: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
SomeGeek75ygh
BECAUSE IT IS A FUCKING WAR ZONE?
LeifHietala
Very good, carry on.
enderite
Nice shot, man.
custardandfishfingers24
Guess that's what you get when you export jobs out of this country.
OmegaYeti
Let them burn.
TheAmazingBlahaj
JasonMacza
Iran had a list of targets. What's the point of threats if they aren't going to carry them out?
dyslexicdog
SAD
GrimleyGraves
KoalaOnTheJuice
It's not ALL bad news then.
khun2
Soooo...Amazon Fire?
meganical
feltenix
This is part of why "just in time" logistics is bad.
Bystandr
If they dont have redundancy with close backup in another nation, Bezos has really dropped the ball, considering how much he's making.
shalafi71
The customer pays for redundancy with Multi-AZ (Availability Zone). Your chosen DC goes down? That's on you buddy. Pay double for Multi-AZ.
layinginbedfeelinglikeaquesarito
Just so everyone knows, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is not the shopping site you use. It is a massive amount of the internet you use. When these go down it isn’t Amazon feeling it, it is so many companies and news sources.
mohavewolfpup
Rest assured space weenie will feel it deeply… as he sends the bill and readies debt collection services to go after anyone refusing payments
wherethehorriblethingsare
Oh no, not the AI data centers. /s
shalafi71
Is anyone using Amazon DCs for AI?! The cost would be staggering vs. setting up ANYTHING else.
Andersen81
More worried about all that crispy DDR5 going up in smoke.
cesarser4
You’ll see it on eBay for half the retail price soon enough.
eion85
From a retaliation standpoint it makes as much sense as targeting the power grid.
It's also arguably a proportional and measured response given Data Centers have low staffing but their destruction has a large impact on a country's industrial and potentially military infrastructure.
Absolutely not an endorsement of any attack, just armchair analysis.
fartharder
Nah, go ahead and disable them all. Do it as a little treat for yourself.
LargeMonty
DDR5 RAM insurance costs about to spike
3andAHalfLivesAgo
I was gifted a set of 16g DDR5 sticks for my build, was just gifted a spare 64 someone had from before the price hikes. So basically I’m gonna wait and sell all my RAM to retire
Dontstopbelever2000ismyfavoritesoap
Dance Dance Revolution 5: Royal Academy of Music? That shit was lit
SerialChickenLover
It’s war. Attacking a data center isn’t exactly bombing a hospital, which is the first thing Israel does.
PithyCommentBelow
Tired of all the misinformation. Israel doesn’t always bomb hospitals first. Sometimes, they choose schools. THEN they bomb the hospitals.
lonelyrangerofthedreams
Yes, first fill the hospitals, then kill all the patients inside.
SerialChickenLover
Good point. That’s how Israel makes sure they kill all of the kids.
Teratoid
We bomb little girls, they bomb servers.
We deserve what's coming to us.
BerryButcher
uhhh 9/11 2026?
Ircy
As a child I used to hate the people that did 9/11. Now I understand them. How do you stand against a political and military superpower (that controls the media and has favor or at least a blind eye from other superpowers), that fucks up any country they want that doesn't align with their financial interests? Sadly with civilian casualties. I'm not happy about it but I understand it.
TheMindEntropic
Not if you stop your leaders.
Quelex
We couldn't stop them from letting an insurrectionist run for presidency again. We couldn't stop enabling and arming a genocide and beating the protesters and labeling them as terrorist supporting antisemites. We're a little screwed up right now/always.
imeatingpizzaandfuckit
This is why capitalism cannot be allowed to regulate itself. Centralized infrastructure is efficient and reduces cost. It also sucks for resilience. They’ll remove all safety nets as excess capacity/redundancy and leave everybody in the lurch.
TinyBadger101
AWS is actually pretty good about backups and resiliency. This is bad, for sure, but remember that each AWS region has a minimum of three physically separate data centers for redundancy. So I don't know what more can be expected of them, really. There isn't much anyone, government or private, can do when data centers are specifically valid targets in a war.
nothingunused
Love how we created DARPANET to be very resilient and de-centralised and then it evolved into the internet and then we centralised everything in the internet and now it's all non-resilient and vulnerable.
shalafi71
Capitalism isn't supposed to regulate itself. Believe it or not, we used to break/disallow monopolies and taxed the snot out of the rich.
imeatingpizzaandfuckit
Violent agreement. I was simply acknowledging this as a great exemplar.
sfbiker
Cloud doesn't force centralization, if anything it enables better geographic redundancy, but only for companies willing to pay for it. In the 1990's, my company's DR site was 60 miles away, and only had enough compute capacity to run a portion of our workload (it was basically our pre-production environment). Now my company runs in 3 datacenters thousands of miles from each other, data is replicated across all 3, and hardware can be spun up in any datacenter to handle the full production load.
imeatingpizzaandfuckit
Enables. That’s the key. But capitalism treats outliers as acceptable risk when it comes to cost, so they accept the risk instead of paying for the resilience
sfbiker
Cloud computing doesn't change that -- plenty of companies ran in a single site before Cloud, and plenty of companies run in a single datacenter in the cloud. But at least in the cloud, that site has redundant power, cooling, network, etc -- much better than the computers running in a small computer room in the corporate office. So the individual company is better off with cloud computing, though it does mean that a single cloud outage can take out many companies at once.
xaddak
You're supposed to set up redundancies in multiple, geographically separated data centers if you actually care about resilience. The cloud makes that a lot easier because you don't need to own multiple data centers to do it.
xaddak
Just wanted to add: fuck capitalism, but I don't think cloud computing is a failure of capitalism.
HelpfulCorn
Spoiler alert: nobody pays for multi region. That's why it's so impactful when us-east-1 goes down
TinyBadger101
We do! But, uh, we also have all our primaries in USE1 so it still sucks for us when it goes down. Because the people making that decision didn't take 10 FUCKING MINUTES to read about why you don't fucking DO THAT. Yeah, still salty about that.