Iran Strikes Leave Amazon Availability Zones 'Hard Down' In Bahrain and Dubai (bigtechnology.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/04/03/2238241/iran-strikes-leave-amazon-availability-zones-hard-down-in-bahrain-and-dubai
- Source link: https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/iran-strikes-leave-amazon-availability
> With the war now nearing its sixth week, Iran has made Amazon infrastructure in the Gulf an economic target and is now eyeing its peers. Amazon's Bahrain facilities have been hit multiple times, including a Wednesday strike that caused a fire. And its facilities in the UAE also sustained multiple hits. The IRGC is threatening multiple other U.S. tech giants, including Microsoft, Google, and Apple.
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> Amazons infrastructure in Bahrain and Dubai each have three 'availability zones' or clusters of compute. Both Bahrain and Dubai have a zones that are "hard down" and and "impaired but functioning," per the internal communication. "We do not have a timeline for when DXB and BAH will return to normal operations," the internal post said.
[1] https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/iran-strikes-leave-amazon-availability
[2] https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws-bahrain-region-middle-east-conflict
Raises hand ... (Score:2)
Maybe Amazon can use drones to deliver things ... -- oh, wait. :-)
Some orgs likely already moved their workloads (Score:2)
In early March, after some of Amazon's data centers in UAE and Bahrain were damaged, Amazon recommended that organizations consider migrating out of the DCs in those areas, as the infrastructure was vulnerable to future outages. The organizations that could do so probably already have (and would be accepting higher latency to wherever they moved those services).
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Nothing of value has been lost.
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Mostly web services for people in the Middle East. All part of the plan when launching this special military operation. Grind down every sign of civilization you find to dust.
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How do you think the AI-embracing businesses must feel, when the three employees who are left realize that their AI collaborators are all offline?
could have been different? (Score:2)
i wonder if bezos hadn’t kissed trump’s ring, would iran have chosen a different company to hit?
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Possibly. I don't think Bezos is running scared, though.
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Amazon provides services to the military.
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Nah, AWS provides logistics to military and intelligence and has for quite a while.
It's tough to argue, "these aren't military targets, we just rent the equipment and provide services to the military for hundreds of billions of dollars."
Which is probably what people will argue.
Your digital assets are safe (Score:2)
Your digital assets are safe, as long as the data centers exist.
It was a PRIME target! (Score:2)
I will show myself out...
Given domestic production ... (Score:2)
> Bahrain and Dubai
Given domestic production levels and an interruption of international deliveries from Amazon, Bacon and Liquor prices must be sky rocketing.
Please sir (Score:2, Insightful)
Please, please, please! We're winning too much! I don't know what to do.
Re:Please sir (Score:5, Insightful)
Very few people support the Islamic Republic regime. We all know it's a disgusting regime.
However, we can still criticize the completely stupid reasons the USA started this war and the absolutely incompetent way it is being prosecuted by the USA.
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You sure you want this regime to win? Consider what happens if we pull out now and the current regime remains in power. What happens next year? What about the year after? You really think that everything is gonna return to the way it was before? And, was everything really that peachy keen before?
Try tuning out the constant blather of misinformation, distraction, and entertainment that's streaming from the current US administration. Yes, I know it's hard to do. The stuff is designed to hack into your bra
Re:Please sir (Score:5, Informative)
> You sure you want this regime to win?
Win what? Remind me again what this war is about?
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Iran is "vulnerable" and "weak"? Really? It just took out a $750M E-3 Sentry AWACS using missiles and drones that probably cost it a total of a couple of million bucks. It downed an F-15E and an A-10. It damaged a Black Hawk helicopter.
The stakes for the Islamic Republic regime are existential. If it survives, it wins. And in the entire history of warfare, the number of regime changes achieved via air attacks alone is precisely: ZERO.
That means boots on the ground. In a country of 90 million tha
Re: Please sir (Score:4, Informative)
Again: I do not want Iran to win. But it will win, because you (and the current American government) completely miss the point.
Iran wins by having its regime survive. And the survival of that regime is not in doubt. At least, not unless the USA invades with ground troops and is willing to take thousands to tens of thousands of casualties.
Do you really want that to happen? Do you think the American public wants it to happen?
Also, please provide citations for "regular Iranians" taking over police stations. The Iranian regime has shown it's willing to act with the utmost brutality, and 50M unarmed civilians cannot win against 1M armed troops.
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"Normal Iranian people despise their theocratic "leadership". Those 1 million Iranian troops will be no match for the 50 million Iranians standing up to them. You can already start to see it in places where the regular people have taken over police stations and begun to arm themselves for what's coming."
I think you misunderstand the amount of support the mullah's have, and the nature of the support.
In Iraq Saddam Hussein was supported by a political party. The members of his part liked him, but he represent
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> Iran is "vulnerable" and "weak"? Really?
Yea, really.
> It just took out a $750M E-3 Sentry AWACS using missiles and drones that probably cost it a total of a couple of million bucks.
> It downed an F-15E and an A-10. It damaged a Black Hawk helicopter.
So what? The US has lost virtually nothing thus far in context of the overall effort.
> The stakes for the Islamic Republic regime are existential. If it survives, it wins.
That's about right.
> And in the entire history of warfare, the number of regime changes achieved via air attacks alone is precisely: ZERO.
This isn't true. Japan signed an instrument of unconditional surrender without boots on the mainland.
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I’m a bit confused and maybe you can clear this up. Why does Iran need to be “sidelined”?
Re:Please sir (Score:4, Insightful)
Which regime? The current Iranian one, the one running is Israel or the one running the US right now? They are all kinda crap quite honestly. At this point Israel's and Iran's leaders are probably competing for body count. Iran it is is its own people and Israel its the Palestinians, which they treat as scum.
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it's called operation "epstein fury" for a reason ... or was it "epic fail"? idk anymore ...
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You just make shit up. You should join that Fuentes guy. Jerk each other off.
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> You sure you want this regime to win? Consider what happens if we pull out now and the current regime remains in power. What happens next year? What about the year after? You really think that everything is gonna return to the way it was before? And, was everything really that peachy keen before?
This reasoning is flawed. The same logic could easily be used to justify genocide. When I read your post, I read it as:
"You've killed 5% of [insert group of people]. Do you really want to stop now? Because if you do, the ones who are left will hate you for the rest of your lives, and will find ways to attack you for decades. The only reasonable choice is to nuke the entire country."
Because literally, you could justify turning Iran to glass with your same logic. This is why decent human beings do not e
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North Korea has nukes and we haven’t done a thing to them. As a matter of fact we’re still technically at war.
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What Iranians fear the most, is the US backing off (ie. the TACO) and then the regime cracking down twice as hard.
In fact, the regime has been doing exactly that as the US has been bombing. Many political opponents, protesters, and even minorities that have nothing to do with this but are often scapegoated are getting arrested, tortured, and executed. Right now this is happening.
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oh, i know. i just read that starting next year german males aged 17-45 will need explicit permission to leave the country for more than 3 months. it's coming, they are all pushing for world war and it's going to get very nasty pretty soon. i guess the ponzi scheme needs to be recycled. it's not even the military planners, it's the bankers.
otoh i totally understand your concern if another power becomes hegemonic, be it china, russia, iran or whatever. but guess what, it is us (as in "we, the west") who have
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Of course, I do not want the Islamic Regime to win this war.
But Iran will beat the USA. Not because the US military is bad. It isn't; it's the best in the world.
The problem is that the USA will lose because its political leadership is completely incompetent. It had no idea how Iran would react. It thought this would be Venezuela II. Even though any armchair general could have predicted that Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz to cause economic pain, Trump seems to have been caught by surprise.
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> The real winners in this are Russia and China. A weakened USA is just what they want, and it's just what they are going to get.
How is the USA getting weaker? It hasn't lost any strategically relevant assets or personal. Iran sure as hell has. Investments in US and partner defense industrial bases have been ramping for years. Attrition of the Iranian regime directly weakens Russia as a key ally of Iran. Likewise China receives the vast majority of Iranian hydrocarbon exports.
> The problem is that the USA will lose because its political leadership is completely incompetent. It had no idea how Iran would react. It thought this would be Venezuela II. Even though any armchair general could have predicted that Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz to cause economic pain, Trump seems to have been caught by surprise.
> The US political leadership has no plan, no clear goals, no strategy, and no clue who they are dealing with. They are going to put their own soldiers' lives at risk and are going to totally botch this shitshow.
I agree the US political picture is an inept and incompetent shitshow. I'm not so sure this translates into USA will lose although it certainly doesn't he
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The USA is getting weaker in the following ways:
1. It's pissed off most of its allies who will be much less likely to help them out in future. We all helped out after 9/11 and in Afghanistan. That ain't happening in future with the attitude from the Trump regime.
2. The USA is sabotaging its own economy, first with ridiculous sanctions and second by blowing up the world economy with this war.
3. The USA may have an impressive industrial base, but dig deeper... pretty much every supply chain in the USA
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> 1. It's pissed off most of its allies who will be much less likely to help them out in future. We all helped out after 9/11 and in Afghanistan. That ain't happening in future with the attitude from the Trump regime.
Trump has pissed off a lot of allies and created a lot of bad sentiment. This doesn't change anything. If shit really hit the fan our allies would assist just the same given it would likely be in their direct interests to do so.
> 2. The USA is sabotaging its own economy, first with ridiculous sanctions and second by blowing up the world economy with this war.
I will agree the issue with traffic thru hormuz is a drag on the worlds economies.
> 3. The USA may have an impressive industrial base, but dig deeper... pretty much every supply chain in the USA has some dependence on China or some other country, and alienating those countries is not a good strategy.
What country is being alienated to a relevant extent? Is there an actual issue with the supply chain caused by present day alienation? If not how is the USA getting weaker when there is no impact?
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For the US to win there has to be regime change.
For Iran to win, they merely need to get the US to quit attacking them. Then they can continue their purge of opponents and terrorizing the population. They get to keep their power. Which is all they want. And then they can plot a terrorism campaign against the west.
Right now the US is looking weak for reacting against every threat that Iran makes to the gulf states. And the US's inability to secure the Strait. And it's fumbling with it's European allies (that
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The US is not the best military in the world. It's the best *on paper*, if the metric used is heavy on equipment and light on strategy/tactics. There's a reason the US has been losing most wars since WWII. It's not the politicians. It's guerilla warfare, which the US military is not nimble enough to handle, with its heavy emphasis on equipment and process.
Go back through history and you'll find that the generals we remember and celebrate are those who thought out of the box, it's never been a pure game of
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Well, yeah. The US military is the best in the world for massive high-tech conventional wars.
Ukraine is probably the best in the world for drone warfare.
Iran is far superior to the USA when it comes to retaining strike capabilities under enormous pressure from a stronger foe.
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> Very few people support the Islamic Republic regime.
actually, right now the overwhelming majority of the iranian population does, and i don't see how anyone's opinion from elsewhere in the world is relevant. it's called "rally the flag", and it's what tends to happen when foreign powers kill your leaders, children and generally bomb you for no reason. somehow they thought iranians would cheer them on or throw their arms up into the air ...
> We all know it's a disgusting regime.
who is "we all" and how do you know? honestly, i don't really know many details about their philosophy or government styl
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no can do. it appears they don't need any nukes to kick ass ...
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> Please, choke on an Iranian nuke.
Please, choke on Bibi's circumcised missile. He's been saying "TWO WEEKS" for several decades.
The former Supreme Leader who was assassinated by America & Israel *specifically* said that Iran was not pursuing nuke weapons and that such were un-Islamic.
Did he mean it? I don't know but I do know that, just like Iraq, no WMDs have been found despite regular inspections.
That's a statement that no good Christian or Jewish leader has ever made and Israel's leaders get very coquettish when asked point blank if
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I know many Iranians. Not a single one of them supports the regime. And they tell me anti-regime sentiment is widespread within Iran.
There were many videos of Iranians inside Iran celebrating when Khamanei was killed.
Yes, probably now there's a rally-round-the-flag effect because the US and Israel have been hitting civilian infrastructure and Iranians don't like that. But you should not confuse Iranians angry about their neighbours being killed and civilian infrastructure destroyed, with support for
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> I know many Iranians. Not a single one of them supports the regime.
how many of them are actually in iran? if you're talking about a few expats in london or ny i can believe that.
> There were many videos of Iranians inside Iran celebrating when Khamanei was killed.
in iran? i doubt that. do you have a link? killing khamenei was like killing the pope, the whole shia community is aghast.
here's a video of actual iranians in iran, it's just a few hours old: [1]https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/180... [t.me]
these videos just keep coming in, i can show you many others if you want. they demonstrate for the regime every day, even under attack. these are very brave and dignified peopl
[1] https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/180592
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None of the Iranians I know are in Iran, but many have friends and family there.
[1]Here [iranintl.com] is a link of people celebrating Khamanei's death.
There are no doubt pro-regime demonstrations. When such a vicious regime demands a supportive demonstration, people will comply.
Note that many Iranians are secular. Persian culture predates Islam by centuries, if not millenia, so when you say that killing Khamanei was like killing the Pope... that really doesn't matter to secular Iranians, who only saw him as a vicio
[1] https://www.iranintl.com/en/202603012558
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> [1]Here [iranintl.com] is a link of people celebrating Khamanei's death.
really. that news site is based in london, funded with saudi money, and their openly stated stance is pro-monarchist, opposed to the islamic republic and allegedly pro-israel. :-) the videos are blurred out and it's not really clear what they represent, or when that happened. really crappy job.
> There are no doubt pro-regime demonstrations. When such a vicious regime demands a supportive demonstration, people will comply.
really. so if they demonstrate it has to be because the "vicious regime demands it", foregone conclusion.
know what, let's just wait a bit and see! they surely will overthrow the vicious government they hate so much an
[1] https://www.iranintl.com/en/202603012558
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> really. that news site is based in london, funded with saudi money, and their openly stated stance is pro-monarchist,
"That news site" happens to be very popular inside of Iran.
The monarchist talking point ignores critical context and is generally intended to sway low information readers. While there are monarchists who mean it the majority speaking of kings and chanting related slogans are not actually calling for literal return of monarchy. It is a mix of trolling / speaking against the illegitimate regime, nostalgia for the past and generally wanting a new system. Not even RP wants a monarchy and if there is one the
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Iranians that support the regime, support it's campaign of brutality that has been affecting so many Iranians for the last 50 years. Most Iranians in the West escaped or left because of this. But many have family and friends there and know first hand of the sufferings the people have endured.
It's an evil regime, no question about it. They aren't heros. They are people that enjoy mass hangings, torture, rape, and a long list of atrocities that have been long documented.
(that being said.. that doesn't mean th
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> in iran? i doubt that. do you have a link? killing khamenei was like killing the pope,
LOL Khamenei wasn't even qualified to be an ayatollah. A fact he himself admitted. All pretenses went out the window when they picked Mojtaba to inherent the throne as puppet of the IRGC mafia state.
> the whole shia community is aghast.
Reza Pahlavi is a Shia. I'm sure he was devastated and heartbroken over the demise of the Zahhak.
> here's a video of actual iranians in iran, it's just a few hours old: [1]https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/180 [t.me]...
> these videos just keep coming in, i can show you many others if you want. they demonstrate for the regime every day, even under attack. these are very brave and dignified people, they're indeed royally pissed but not precisely with their government atm, and they will not yield.
There is a massive selection bias in the information coming out of Iran. The only people who have working Internet are certified regime loyalists/propogandists. Everyone else is blocked. There are some with Sta
[1] https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/180
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Please, choke on a nuke or a terror attack, my friend.
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We all know it's a disgusting regime.
then why did the iranians rally around it after the leader was killed? you seem to believe the propaganda machine instead of logic, and calling people's regime "disgusting" after blowing up a girls school is pretty fucked up, not just disgusting.
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> then why did the iranians rally around it after the leader was killed?
They didn't. They [1]celebrated in the streets when Khamanei was killed. [iranintl.com]
[1] https://www.iranintl.com/en/202603012558
Re:Please sir (Score:5, Insightful)
Everyone loses in this war. Imagine if instead of spending $200 billion to bomb poor brown people, we spend the money on helping people in this country?
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I can't wait for Iran to then bomb those poor brown people in America.
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How do you expect to win against people who are willing to die for their cause?
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To paraphrase a general, by ensuring they do die for their cause, and we don't.
Our job isn't to die for our country, but to make them die for theirs.
That said, it's expensive and hard, and best avoided when possible.
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200 Billion?! that's nothing...
Trump has requested a 1.5 TRILLION dollar War (Defense) Department budget for 2027. That is a 500 BILLION increase over the 1 TRILLION dollar Defense Department budget he requested for 2026.
He has proposed a 10% reduction in domestic services budgets (Veterans, Medicare, Housing, Infrastructure, Parks, etc.) -amounting to 73 BILLION dollars to go along with it.
> "It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all of these individual things, they can do i
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> That's not all for just this war.
None of it is for this war. It is in addition to the special appropriation he has requested to pay for this war. The 1.5 TRILLION DOLLARS is for the next war(s) that he is planning to drag us into.
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> Everyone loses in this war. Imagine if instead of spending $200 billion to bomb poor brown people, we spend the money on helping people in this country?
Since Russia invaded Ukraine their allies have been dropping like flies. Assad's Syria is no more. Russian influence in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Africa, Venezuela and Cuban are in decline. Even Transnistria is being cut off.
Thanks to the Israelis and now the US the Islamic revolutions power projection is being severely attrited in the region. Russia can't do shit to help Iran who provided it with tens of thousands of drones to kill and terrorize Ukrainian civilians for years. Lebanon is asserting itself ag
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Russia can't do shit to help Iran
Oh, I dunno. A little bit of intelligence and satellite photo assistance and poof there goes a very expensive AWACS.
It's obvious to everyone that Russia is helping Iran with intelligence at the very least, and possibly even with air defenses... how is it that an F-15E was shot down now, a month into the war?
I agree that leaving the war unfinished will be a disaster. However, finishing it is going to take the lives of thousands to tens of thousands of American soldie
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Russia is protecting Khamenei's son as well.