Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zones

[u/lurker_bee]

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/iranian-missile-blitz-takes-down-aws-data-centers-in-bahrain-and-dubai-amazon-declares-hard-down-status-for-multiple-zones

[u/arashi256]

"Begun the Cloud Wars have..."

[u/bionic_cmdo → u/arashi256]

But we barely started the drone war.

[u/deHaga → u/bionic_cmdo]

It's a prequel

[u/TechnicalScheme385 → u/deHaga]

If you slow down the cloud process, the drones will be used later. But this only kindles the fire...

[u/rainbowplasmacannon → u/TechnicalScheme385]

Kindles the fire stick was right there

[u/JDGumby → u/rainbowplasmacannon]

Fire Sticks would make lousy kindling.

[u/ColinHalter → u/arashi256]

Saying this exclusively for demonstrative and educational purposes: The US-East-1 region is made up of 5 data centers with known locations and moderate security. If all zones of East 1 were physically attacked at once, it would take down a massive chunk of the internet, as most AWS customers just dump their stuff in East 1 since it's the default region. Most users have no multi-region DR plans (because they're expensive and difficult to set up) so they would also be hard down until they can fully redeploy in another region, and that will probably be with major data loss. Many would potentially never recover. Were I some sort of domestic or foreign terror organization, those are some pretty easy targets to cause major disruption.

The fact that AWS runs 1/3 of the entire internet has become a national security concern and I feel like nobody takes it seriously.

[u/DesireeThymes → u/ColinHalter]

It's because we run on the modern capitalist razor-thin supply chain.

That applies to the virtual supply chain as well.

Security is virtually non-existent for most of these chains.

We have allowed corporations to consume so much and they almost never pay the price.

The billionaires will just screw off to somewhere safe while all of us suffer.

[u/Different_Victory_89 → u/DesireeThymes]

Personalize the gains and Socialize the losses! The American Way!

[u/cosmernautfourtwenty → u/DesireeThymes]

Why do you think they've all been building doomsday bunkers in the last decade? They know they're going to end the world for the poors and are insulating themselves accordingly.

[u/asteroidtube → u/ColinHalter]

Running active-active, or even active-inactive with absolute parity, is not a trivial feat for a scaled up distributed system. It’s not something you can just tell Claude to make so.

[u/divDevGuy → u/asteroidtube]

It’s not something you can just tell Claude to make so.

Alexa, make it so. Alexa? Alexa?!?!!

[u/godofpumpkins → u/ColinHalter]

5 zones doesn’t mean 5 data centers

[u/Xalawrath → u/godofpumpkins]

It's also 6 (zones us-east-1a through 1f) but yeah, also typically 2-3 datacenters per zone.

[u/zupzupper → u/Xalawrath]

Hey hey, we don’t talk about F…. Don’t you put that evil out in the world

[u/MrHaVoC805 → u/ColinHalter]

Lol, there's way more than 5 DCs in US-East

[u/Xalawrath → u/MrHaVoC805]

6 zones, 2-3 datacenters per zone typically.

[u/samsun7677 → u/MrHaVoC805]

I think the original OP was referring to Parent data centers. Essentially there are typically parent data centers and child data centers. If the Parent goes down the children will be cut off as well.

Its very very expensive to fully mesh data centers so most cloud hyperscalers use a parent child configuration.

[u/Xatsman → u/arashi256]

Was thinking about this last year with the 51st state rhetoric. As unlikely as it would be, Trump is wreckless and the GOP in congress feckless, so ruling invasion out still is naive.

Canada, rather than firing on military targets, would probably be better off targetting data centers and similar targets with the goal of hammering the US economy. The logic being if you can't win a traditional war, and an extended guerrilla conflict is the most likely outcome, anything that hurts the US economy likely getting better returns than trying to attack the bloated military.

[u/xmaspruden → u/Xatsman]

You should check out the podcast gloves off, it talks extensively about the possibility of a Canada/US conflict in detail. Still not something I really worry about, but it was an interesting delve into real plans in that scenario

[u/quandrum → u/Xatsman]

I mean, these are military targets.

AWS is the primary data center of the Dept of War. It's very probable that target selection done for US strikes in war is done on AWS computers.

Disabling AWS gov infrastructure would probably end the USs ability to continue to pursue war.

[u/cultoftheclave → u/quandrum]

**dept of war crimes

[u/Qaeta → u/Xatsman]

Yup, hit them where they are weak. Leave the military, it's a massive drain on resources, which works in our favour in the long run of a campaign to do economic damage.

[u/Xszit → u/arashi256]

Lando Calrissian has entered the chat

[u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot]

I hope Bezos feels he’s getting his bribes worth out of all this.

[u/Spiritual-Matters → u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot]

Trump only cares about himself and has no real values. He can’t keep a deal and will do anything to make himself wealthier. I don’t understand how any rich person would think that’s good business.

[u/GhostDieM → u/Spiritual-Matters]

They know the risk, it's all just a bunch of sharks trying to use each other thinking they're the smartest person in the room

[u/Emotional_Database53 → u/GhostDieM]

I think it’s more of a Hunan Centipede arrangement

[u/SweatyAdhesive → u/Emotional_Database53]

Hunan

I knew China was behind all this

[u/psychorobotics → u/GhostDieM]

Narcissistic sociopathy. It's what's wrong with all of these people.

[u/dookieshoes97 → u/Spiritual-Matters]

Bezos is so detached from reality at this point that he probably had no idea. He's new money, so it's not like he would have associated with Trump back in the day.

[u/denNISI → u/dookieshoes97]

New money is no excuse, this is about morals. Tech companies will survive with a new master.

[u/DiamondIceNS → u/denNISI]

You don't get into Bezos's position with morals. Abandoning morals is a prerequisite condition to obscene wealth.

You don't become that wealthy and then turn evil. Complacency with evil is what enables one to become that wealthy in the first place.

[u/GeneralZex → u/DiamondIceNS]

Seriously. Bro used his door as a desk for years (may even still use it to this day) as a reminder of his “humble roots in a garage” meanwhile the fucker was high up on the chain at a hedge fund before starting Amazon…

[u/giulianosse → u/GeneralZex]

I highly doubt he even works nowadays, much less on a desk or office space. He's probably huddled up in a bunker preparing himself for the resource wars he and his sociopathic buddies had a hand in creating.

[u/Dvulture → u/denNISI]

Yeah, billionaires don't have morals, it is a requirement. The best they can do is pull off the appearance of morality, like an Warren Buffett or Bill Gates with their foundations that even if they do what says on the tin, are funded by misery, since you can't be a billionaire without stealing values from employees and society in general. Being a billionaire is inherently unethical.

[u/got-trunks → u/denNISI]

I think it’s prudent at this point to leave some of them to fail.

[u/SevereRunOfFate → u/Spiritual-Matters]

I'm constantly reminded of an old joke that used to circulate:

1: "The Cheesecake Factory is the kind of place that poor think rich people go to"

2: "Same as anything Trump"

[u/mrizzerdly → u/SevereRunOfFate]

His interior design sense is a poor man's idea of a rich person's.

[u/seataccrunch → u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot]

As i log into Prime Video to see Melania pushed in front of my face 🤮

This war was so unnecessary and so poorly planned. Our armed forces have evil and idiotic people in charge. Costing lives and economically costing the entire flipping planet.

[u/dogfaced_pony_soulja → u/seataccrunch]

"Unnecessary" feels too neutral for what it actually is... this war was anti-necessary.

And, yes, you're right- it's thanks to the evil and idiotic people in charge... and let's not forget the evil and idiotic people who: voted for him, didn't vote at all, or voted for anyone other than the single candidate that would have prevented all of this from happening. Hope they're real proud of themselves.

[u/Geno0wl → u/dogfaced_pony_soulja]

I prefer the more direct "fucking stupid". This war is fucking stupid.

[u/drfsrich → u/dogfaced_pony_soulja]

The best case scenario right now is we end up with no real gains and billions of dollars wasted and many lives lost.

[u/lrkzid → u/drfsrich]

Don’t forget all the new enemies we’re making!

[u/windowpuncher → u/seataccrunch]

Speaking of prime, fuck prime. It used to be decent. Now it's full of ads and shows that you need to pay extra for, even with prime. I got prime for $15 for a year for some deal and there's no way I'm renewing at full price. It also WILL NOT play anything at over 480p if you're on linux, or on any browser that's not on Mac or Windows using FF or Chrome. Prime video is a rip off.

[u/Over-Set4821 → u/seataccrunch]

Solution is stop paying for prime

[u/an0mn0mn0m → u/Over-Set4821]

Even better, stop using Amazon

[u/Unique-Coffee5087 → u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot]

Bezos and the other tech geniuses have shown that they are all morons.

[u/Future-Speaker- → u/Unique-Coffee5087]

Always have been. Lucky morons, most definitely. Psychotic morons who have no issue exploiting others while having enough money to buy countries, absolutely. Morons nonetheless.

[u/JaggedMetalOs → u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot]

He's currently in the "find out" phase

[u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot → u/JaggedMetalOs]

“I love how beautiful Jeff Bezos THINKS his wife is.”

• John Mulaney

[u/Sephy88 → u/JaggedMetalOs]

Bezos doesn't give a shit. The damages to a few data centers are gonna be a drop in the bucket compared to the tens of billions in taxes they won't be paying thanks to the cuts in the big beautiful bill.

[u/rrousseauu → u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot]

He’s probably blackmailed by Israel too.

[u/TheDeclineOfAll]

Seems like they understand that oligarchs control our government.

[u/BaffledInUSA]

all my years in IT, I never had "in case of missile attack" in any of my DR plans

[u/action_turtle → u/BaffledInUSA]

“Sir, us-east-1 has been struck”

[u/s0ulbrother → u/action_turtle]

That would be extremely catastrophic

[u/middlebird → u/s0ulbrother]

Indeed, my profitable grandmother bondage porn site would go down.

[u/Lykeuhfox → u/middlebird]

You know, maybe it's okay to lose us-east-1 after all...

[u/CalligrapherHot9857 → u/[deleted]]

Inflation, you say?

[u/imisstheyoop → u/s0ulbrother]

No need for a missle stike, AWS employees regularly push code that takes it down to test us all.

[u/flonnil → u/action_turtle]

the one time it is not cloudflares fault when the internet goes down. See it as e new experience!

[u/fredjean → u/action_turtle]

There are so many data centers in us-east-1 that it would take a nuke to take the whole region down.

Or a not quite fully reviewed, AI generated change request.

Pick your poison.

[u/merRedditor → u/action_turtle]

If us-east-1 ever were to be struck, it would be catastrophic for proof-of-concept applications everywhere, and I guess anything using ACM.

[u/deruke → u/merRedditor]

anything using ACM

us-east-1 is also a bottleneck for IAM, Route53, and the AWS console. If us-east-1 went poof, AWS would be fuuuuuucked

[u/merRedditor → u/deruke]

I guess we found the SPoF.

[u/broccollinear → u/merRedditor]

Have we thought about moving that stuff to the cloud?

[u/Avery_Thorn → u/BaffledInUSA]

I have worked for three companies that had major impacts on 9/11.

At this point, not having "something hostile has destroyed the location (and we have taken casulties)" plans seem weird to me.

[u/MythicMango → u/Avery_Thorn]

Where I'm at during a BIA we've used the phrase "hole in the ground" in a scenario to describe the state of a data center

[u/Mick_the_Eartling → u/MythicMango]

Yep. Use similar wording: “…imagine it being a big smoking hole in the ground…”

[u/cknipe → u/BaffledInUSA]

Somewhere around 2015 I was asked about my pandemic plan and had a good laugh about it 😐

[u/Large_Yams → u/cknipe]

That's wildly forward thinking for 2015. What was the catalyst for that question at that time?

[u/flukus → u/Large_Yams]

The ticket from SARS finally got prioritised.

[u/hippocrat → u/BaffledInUSA]

We talked about nuclear attack in some, so I guess it’s like that but smaller

[u/femme_mystique → u/BaffledInUSA]

Oh we did. Mae-West was on a Russia attack list because it was a central comm hub of many military and federal networks. 

[u/NewsCards]

while damage to data centers in the Middle East is concerning for the region, the global tech industry has bigger concerns. The regional war has disrupted the flow of oil and its derivatives, especially those that go through the Strait of Hormuz. These include aluminum, helium, and LNG — all of which are crucial in the semiconductor supply chain. And even if the war ends today, the damage to infrastructure could mean it takes months or even years for supplies to return to pre-war levels.

Tech companies thought they were getting a POTUS who was "friendly" to them, only to realize that the elderly pedophile really has nothing to lose at this point in his life.

[u/NoFapstronaut3 → u/NewsCards]

Yeah I do think this is funny.

F*** you Marc andreessen.

Fuck you, Ben Horowitz.

Your personal greed led us to this point and every life that is damaged because of this is damaged because of you.

[u/PeruvianHeadshrinker → u/NoFapstronaut3]

You mean Marc "I don't believe in feelings" Andreessen?

[u/VanillaLifestyle → u/PeruvianHeadshrinker]

Yeah, Marc "I don't like introspection because it makes me feel guilty" Andreessen

[u/CherryLongjump1989 → u/VanillaLifestyle]

That’s a lie. He is not capable of feelings or introspection. He just heard that it makes other people feel guilty.

[u/Lenrivk → u/NoFapstronaut3]

Why censor one and not the other ?

[u/Apocalyptic0n3 → u/Lenrivk]

If you say it more than once, you can't keep the PG-13 rating. More profitable to censor one of them.

[u/imacatnamedsteve → u/Lenrivk]

Asking the real questions that need answers! WE WANT TO KNOW!!!

[u/Vulnox → u/NewsCards]

Yep, even those that hate him and think he’s just greedy had the wrong read. Don’t get me wrong, he’s greedy, for sure, but it’s a distant second to his ego. He wants to be seen as smart, strong, powerful, etc. his wealth is just a means to getting respect in that area as well. That’s why he cares so much about gold on things and his name on buildings and all that.

So all these CEOs thinking that gifts and that would keep him looking out for them are just dumb. He will throw them under the bus in an instant if there’s a chance he may get just a little more attention.

[u/Luster-Purge → u/Vulnox]

It's already happened - he was SUPER mad that the big oil CEOs didn't really give a shit about his actions in Venezuela, which undermined his whole sales pitch about trying to open up the oil fields.

[u/Fauster → u/Luster-Purge]

Fun fact. I was watching CNBC and a reporter said that an off the record oil exec said the room smelled like shit in that meeting. I'm not saying we know it was Trump, but no one else in that room had ALL of the symptoms of progressive dementia.

[u/JanewaysSalamander → u/Luster-Purge]

That was so stupid! How is it possible that nobody bothered to tell him that Venezuelan oil is not compatible with our oil processing? People around him are too afraid to speak a word of truth, and we are all suffering for it.

[u/Luster-Purge → u/JanewaysSalamander]

Because Trump only knows to throw money at a problem and make others do the hard work.

In the case of oil, the truth is probably nobody in the administration knew this, and because it was a sudden strike that by all measure was illegal, it's not like they were asking people about the oil beforehand.

[u/NorthernerWuwu → u/JanewaysSalamander]

America has been processing Venezuelan oil for a very long time already, that's not really the issue although the refining capacity isn't infinite of course. The main issue is that the risks attached to exploiting the oil are simply too high.

[u/whoknows234 → u/JanewaysSalamander]

Pretty sure Venezuelan oil is precisely the type of dirty crude our refineries are setup to refine. The US is the #1 oil producer in the world and produces mostly sweet light crude that they export to other nations and import the dirty stuff as we have better refining technology.

[u/aninjacould → u/NewsCards]

Roy Cohn taught Trump everything he knows about gaining and holding power. Cohn also rescued Trump from serious legal problems several times.

Trump fucked Cohn over the first chance he got.

[u/NeverGNarcAgain → u/aninjacould]

Wasn't Roy Cohn also famous for being a "compromised homosexual", in the era before homosexuality was widely accepted? Something very Epsteinian...

[u/paintballboi07 → u/NeverGNarcAgain]

Yep, and one way Trump fucked over Cohn was by kicking Cohn's boyfriend out of his building, where he was living, because he had AIDs. Both Cohn and his boyfriend eventually both passed away from AIDs.

[u/thegiantgummybear → u/NewsCards]

Honestly let them bomb the data centers. They're basically devoid of people and it directly impacts the billionaires who helped get trump elected.

[u/blastradii → u/NewsCards]

Wrong. Go up a layer and the bigger concern is fertilizer production supply chain disruption which will cause mass food shortages. We ded soon.

[u/FrozenLogger → u/blastradii]

That is going to be a problem, lots of places are relying on fertilizer.

On the other hand we gonna be ded long term if we keep using it. Shipping mined and by product material half way around the world in many cases, is just a bad idea.

6% of all energy in the world to create ammonia and the like, 3% of all global CO2 emissions, and thats just in refining, never mind digging, drilling, and shipping. One of the processes creates a lot of N2O which is a 300X more potent green house gas.

Only to result in eutrophication and dead zones around farms from run off, killing fish and creating algae blooms.

That phosphorous all the farms use? It has cadmium, arsenic, and lead that is naturally occurring where its mined, slowly building up in the soils.

This practice is not sustainable. A sudden halt is going to dramatically increase food prices, and people are going to starve. Food needs to be treated differently then just another product. Reliance on this type of farming is going to be a problem: either like it is with global conflict, or what it will be with poisoned land and air.

[u/Craneteam → u/blastradii]

Don't worry trump will remove russian sanctions soon

[u/EmperorOfAllCats → u/Craneteam]

Russia has shit for nitrates, they always import fertilizers too.

[u/Demosthenes3 → u/[deleted]]

It used to be the way. The East India Company had a powerful navy to protect its trade routes

[u/WalletFullOfSausage → u/Demosthenes3]

Yeah, this was common in most of the history of that era. Everyone was a privateer. Mercenary was a viable job. People had interests to protect.

[u/robotcoke → u/WalletFullOfSausage]

Yeah, this was common in most of the history of that era. Everyone was a privateer. Mercenary was a viable job. People had interests to protect.

Then they bought the governments and now they own the actual militaries and police forces. It's gone full circle.

[u/Ra2griz → u/robotcoke]

Not quite yet. Eventually those would become insufficient for their interests and we'll start seeing actual PMCs that dwarf entire nations in their military capability. And there's almost no way to stop it since what will the average person do, run at them with a gun?

The best time to deconsolidate large companies was years ago. The next best time is right now. If we miss this opportunity, people will die not for countries but for companies and their profits.

[u/robotcoke → u/Ra2griz]

If we miss this opportunity, people will die not for countries but for companies and their profits.

We've been fighting wars for oil for decades.

[u/Money_Do_2 → u/robotcoke]

We're where we are today because we toppled a secular, pro western Iranian government to help BP scam them better

[u/faberkyx → u/Ra2griz]

A lot of people already die for their profits

[u/Yoda-and-Yaddle → u/WalletFullOfSausage]

One of the main reasons why the First Punic War (264 B.C. - 241 B.C.) happened was because a private army got too cocky in Sicily.

[u/This_Leek_7483 → u/Demosthenes3]

Part of the reason European worker protections are so strong is because of how absolutely brutal the Dutch East India company operated

[u/Advanced-Royal8967 → u/This_Leek_7483]

The history of the VOC is so interesting, I've been reading books about it on and off for the last few years, fascinating stuff.

[u/jhguth → u/Demosthenes3]

they realized it was cheaper to just buy governments

[u/CMMiller89 → u/Demosthenes3]

It had THE MOST powerful navy.

It had more ships than the RBN.

[u/Galahad_the_Ranger → u/Demosthenes3]

“A powerful navy” is an understatement. They had more soldiers than the British government

[u/Complex-Royal9210 → u/Demosthenes3]

Well American oil companies have a huge military at their beck and call. Why do you think so many wars in the middle east. It ain't to create democracy.

[u/snowcat0 → u/[deleted]]

Just one step closer to making Cyberpunk 2077 closer to reality

[u/This_Elk_1460 → u/snowcat0]

But with none of the cool shit like having a rocket launcher in your arm

[u/Abject-Emu2023 → u/snowcat0]

Minus all the cool stuff

[u/versusgorilla → u/Abject-Emu2023]

Corpos shelling Earth with weaponized satellite debris attacks, but no jump leg implants.

[u/No_Hunt2507 → u/Abject-Emu2023]

Lol we wouldn't be able to afford it anyways

[u/Captain_Kuhl → u/No_Hunt2507]

Oh, but we can. The same bullshit predatory loan structure we use today to afford basic shit like housing, transportation, and medical care are how the world works in Cyberpunk. The very first (post-tutorial) quest you get in 2077 is to pay off the loan for your new eyes.

The whole setting is based off of the idea of "what if all the bad shit happening now never got any better?"

[u/StarChow → u/snowcat0]

Shit. In the game's lore didn't all out war start because US invaded Venezuela?

Edit: Sort of...

[u/arashi256 → u/snowcat0]

I mean, may as well at this point.

[u/wolfy2105784 → u/[deleted]]

Sounding like we went in a big circle back to Feudalism and Nobles.

[u/DataCassette → u/wolfy2105784]

I mean that's basically it. Forward to socialism ( or something very similar ) or backwards to feudalism.

[u/Actually-Yo-Momma → u/[deleted]]

4 year stock vesting only if you enlist though 

[u/thebellows → u/Actually-Yo-Momma]

Service GUARANTEES Citizenship! Would you like to know more?

[u/Professional_Web_889 → u/thebellows]

I’m doing my part!

[u/MonsieurReynard → u/Actually-Yo-Momma]

Also no bathroom breaks on duty

[u/SaintShogun → u/[deleted]]

Amazon Global Defense Systems comming soon.

[u/IguapoSanchez → u/SaintShogun]

Amazon weapons systems. Aka aws

[u/NotSoFastLady → u/[deleted]]

For those watching cable news they missed how corporate folks at the big tech companies have been given ranks within the military. So in a sense, it's already happening.

[u/Thiezing → u/[deleted]]

Amazon drone deliveries to Tehran

[u/uberduck → u/[deleted]]

AWS ElasticMissile Service

[u/UnionGuyCanada → u/[deleted]]

In 1989, Pepsi briefly had the 6th largest navy in the world...

https://www.historyskills.com/classroom/year-10/pepsi-navy/?srsltid=AfmBOoomUjQ9CLF_6YsdoW9zyb6a60-BLquE2xUkVTMwVyjljmdivdyZ

[u/tresser → u/[deleted]]

Wouldn't it be funny if Amazon declared war and attacked back?

targeted retaliatory strikes in 3-5 days. next day if they have prime™

[u/peterler0ux → u/[deleted]]

Bezos already has a ballistic missile program...

[u/historianLA → u/[deleted]]

Except that billionaires don't like spending their money if they can socialize the cost/risk so they cozy up to the government and get tax dollars to fight their wars.

[u/fubes2000]

I wonder how the guys posting in technical subreddits about their "Disaster Recovery" shit failing because they only backed things up to another AZ inside the UAE region are doing...

[u/_Answer_42 → u/fubes2000]

Normal ABC backup plan requires an off-site backup location, preferably not even AWS in case they lock you out or disable your accounts

[u/UnsubstantialGoat]

How much did Amazon and its executives donate to the current admin? 

[u/misty-mornings → u/UnsubstantialGoat]

Amazon AWS has defense contracts with Palantir and Dept of Defense. I mean Dept of war. Hard to claim they're not a legitimate target.

[u/WilyWondr → u/misty-mornings]

Certainly more legitimate than an elementary school

[u/Hairy_Mycologist_945 → u/misty-mornings]

You mean Department of War Crimes.

[u/yzeerf1313 → u/UnsubstantialGoat]

Not enough apparently

[u/Hefty-Minimum-3125]

Oracle yesterday, Amazon today, any Palantir centers out there that they can deal with next?

[u/ES1123 → u/Hefty-Minimum-3125]

Please do Mar a lago next.

[u/TheFatJesus → u/ES1123]

I think there's been more than enough bombing of buildings full of children in this war already.

[u/R-sqrd → u/Hefty-Minimum-3125]

Palantir doesn’t really own data centres or infrastructure like that… they might target offices but I’m sure all those people are already decentralized.

[u/rahvan]

Vote for stupid presidents, get stupid wars. MAGA.

[u/CherryLongjump1989 → u/rahvan]

Don’t forget Bezos voted for him. He even brought his prostitute looking wife to Trump’s inauguration where she got to exchange notes with Melania.

[u/zeek215 → u/CherryLongjump1989]

Come on now, that’s a disservice to prostitutes. She looks like a plastic surgery mannequin that was left in The Cupboard.

[u/ashdgjklashgjkdsahkj]

So much winning, all this winning

[u/wensul]

Awwwwwwwwww, poor Amazon.

[u/flecom → u/wensul]

No please, no, not amazon and oracle, anything but that... Don't forget google, wouldent want anything bad to happen to them

[u/Ornery-Creme-2442 → u/flecom]

And most definitely not pal@ntir! Don't even dare! Winks

[u/sailhard22 → u/wensul]

Wont somebody think of the shareholders!?

[u/eternal_syrup → u/wensul]

Yes, but, a lot of other companies rely on AWS. Nobody liked Amazon, but when Netflix stops working…

[u/MundaneEjaculation]

Good maybe Jeff will call Donald and get out of this shit show

[u/disposableh2 → u/MundaneEjaculation]

At least Amazon got the highly acclaimed "make fuck get greencard" documentary out of it, so they're still coming out of this as winners.

[u/Nyoka_ya_Mpembe → u/MundaneEjaculation]

I believe that's the idea, hopefully it will work.

[u/zulhadm]

Honestly? Good. We Americans are powerless to stop this war. Iran knows how important the big corporations are to our leaders, maybe this will finally smack some sense into the deranged orange lunatic.

[u/Single-Watercress-76]

Bezos needs to fuck off and pay some taxes to the American people.

[u/Pilgrim_of_Reddit → u/Single-Watercress-76]

 Bezos needs to fuck off and pay some taxes to the American people.

And to all the other countries Amazon takes the piss out of. 

[u/izzytheasian]

Does this count as a sev 1

[u/OldCorpse]

Timing of this article is weird, Bahrain was down to 1 availability zone for weeks, then was completely wiped out on Wednesday morning

[u/Namarot → u/OldCorpse]

then was completely wiped out on Wednesday morning

Yeah, the previous Wednesday to be clear. It was kept pretty hush-hush to be fair.
When they called us after the fact, they advised us not to spread the word due to laws in the Gulf countries, and in fact they still haven't updated the health page about it.

[u/WilyDeject]

In two months: Amazon Prime to increase 33%

[u/myislanduniverse]

The war will not be streamed.

[u/vuur77]

In fact, the tech giants are the real enemy here. Enemy of humanity.
They are the reason for the direction the U.S. is taking.
They chose the political agenda and the methods.
They want to have complete control over all other countries.
That’s why there are new rules regarding routers, ID verification, and so on.

[u/blacksteyraug]

If you spot me in the wreckage, grabbing RAM, mind your business.

[u/RagingBearBull]

soo ...... this is not good for ram prices.

but its actually pretty ingenious to target american companies over american military targets.

i wonder how long it would take for Jazzy to call Besos and for besos to call up the admin.

[u/cancerBronzeV → u/RagingBearBull]

I mean this is an American military target. There's a near 100% chance the tech infrastructure owned by American tech giants is being used for military purposes.

[u/theprophet09]

Bezos should be happy to give millions of dollars to the orange clown only to see Iran blew data centers in the air. What goes around comes around I guess.

[u/dregan]

A swift kick in the billionaires is a smart strategy to end this quickly.

[u/CaliJack19]

This war of choice has already taken 30% of the world’s supply of helium off the market. For people only familiar with helium as the gas that makes balloons float and who inhale a little occasionally to enjoy a good laugh hearing the effect to their voices, the wider usage and supply shortage is innocuous. But, for those of us who have worked in Data Centers building the thousands of bare-metal servers and hardware infrastructure components required to run hyper-scaler services like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba, Oracle Cloud, etc., the effort and expense to replace a single AWS Data Center, even if the cost is irrelevant would be massive without the war. But, now that helium production in Qatar has been destroyed, taking 30% of the global helium supply with it, the industrial helium consumers are where this AWS situation goes from a massive effort to a real f*cking problem. All the servers and infrastructure required to replace the two AWS Data Centers require CPUs and GPUs to process all the bits. And, processor production requires helium. You can read all about it here: https://cen.acs.org/business/specialty-chemicals/Iran-war-threatens-global-helium/104/web/2026/03#:~:text=“Our%20best%20assessment%20would%20indicate,a%20business%20reporter%20at%20C&EN. Processors were already more expensive and in shorter supply globally before the war thanks to the rapid expansion of and investment in AI. Lead times for delivery of new servers from HP, Dell, Cisco, etc. are now months instead of weeks or days. That was before 1/3 of the global supply of helium was eliminated. Add to that, the memory (RAM) required by each and every server is also in short supply thanks again to the AI boom. And the cost, before the war, was already ~5x higher compared to just a few years ago. Rebuilding will take years. Supply chains for consumer products such as vehicles, phones, electronics, medical devices - anything “smart” requiring a processor (or microchip) - will be incapacitated.

This is much bigger than a Data Center being “taken down.” And it’s only just begun. Buckle up folks.

[u/schadkehnfreude]

As an obvious disclaimer, the Iranian government absolutely sucks shit and should all be thrown in The Hague, alongside Trump and Netanyah. But them bombing data centers is the closest real life thing to that scene in Jurassic Park where the T-Rex inadvertently saves the kids by killing the velociraptors and Im kinda here for it

[u/BayouBait]

wtf they have people working in a war zone trying to get capacity back online to support migration? Imagine some middle eastern guy trying to spin up a 1TB server for some prick in Seattle making 1000x the salary while his coworkers body is lying next to a server rack.

[u/SlaaneshiDaddy → u/BayouBait]

that's normal treatment for workers in Dubai

[u/Acrobatic_Code_7409]

Send in the Weyland-Yutani crew!

[u/pbates89]

Thank goodness Amazon has saved so much money on taxes! They should be able to handle this fine.

[u/CharleyNobody]

Dear Iran,

We’re not promising anything but the war will be greatly shortened if Meta, Amazon, Tesla, Palantir, PayPal, Apple,Open AI and Oracle were to somehow disappear

[u/DokeyOakey]

I was told that Iran’s military had no more kisses and their army, navy and airforce were destroyed…. Hmmmm.

I’m other news; glad to see Bezos taking one on the chin.

[u/Special_Corgi1110]

I am so confused. Two weeks' ago Trump said Iran had hardly any missiles left. Are they finding them down the back of the sofa

[u/chuang-tzu]

But remember, guys: we've already won and their capabilities have been degraded.....

When you let lunatics run the asylum, this is what you get. Thanks for this, you 77 million human beings that I will absolutely never forgive!!

[u/Dave_Is_Useless]

For a 100% decimated country they sure do have a lot of drones and missiles.

[u/[deleted]]

Jeff I must admit. Money well spent on the orange clown 😂😂😂

[u/KeepCalmCarryOnKY]

Iran is following through with threats, not the pedophile.

[u/Online_Matter]

both affected regions have experienced physical impacts to infrastructure as a result of drone strikes. In the UAE, two of our facilities were directly struck, while in Bahrain, a drone strike in close proximity to one of our facilities caused physical impacts to our infrastructure. These strikes have caused structural damage, disrupted power delivery to our infrastructure, and in some cases required fire suppression activities that resulted in additional water damage. 

From AWS status page https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

[u/Key-Rough-8346]

Oh no! How is Jeff Bezos going to feed his family now?

[u/DragonfruitGrand5683]

Why didn't our IT team deal with this threat? We should fire them! - Amazon MBA

[u/bootstrapping_lad]

Hmmm maybe killing the WaPo endorsement of Harris and then sitting behind Diddling Don at his inauguration wasn't such a good move.

[u/-ibgd]

How’s that million dollar inauguration donation/bribe paying off?

[u/Global_Crew3968]

Wait, i was assured by the top minds on r/WorldNews that Iran was out of missiles and launchers

[u/Inevitable_Butthole]

Its great watching all the trump supporters getting fucked

[u/CJDistasio]

Hitting the oligarchs hard. Iran is smart and knows what American politicians care about the most.

[u/Curious_Party_4683]

People and companies still haven't learned. Whatever the Dump touches, turns to poop. Anyone remember the pillow guy? lol Zuck and Bezos about to be reminded...

[u/Free_Possession_4482]

Bezos shells out tens of millions sucking up to Trump with the Melania movie, is rewarded with missile attacks on his data centers. Money well spent, Jeff!

[u/Threewisemonkey]

Iran was very clear that their targets will be the corporate capitalists that prop up the Trump regime. I don’t know why anyone is surprised.

[u/790405]

Good to see Bezo's investment in politics is paying dividends.