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danluu ("Dan Luu") wrote:

Amazon exec: "you wouldn't notice [if someone blew up a datacenter]. I mean, we might be a bit upset, but you wouldn't notice! [laughs]"

Amazon official statement after DCs were blown up: "After a thorough assessment, we have determined that we are unable to restore access to the resources and data hosted exclusively in this Region."

(yes, more than one DC was blown up, but, like other failures, of course DCs being blown up aren't uncorrelated events)

​​But hold on a second: If we're concentrating all of our data into data centers, and concentrating most of the data centers in one county, doesn't that make a very tempting target for terrorists? Amazon's Matt Wood isn't worried: "If something does happen or we have a power event or there's a flood in one specific location, that data is held redundantly in other locations as well." Pogue asked, "I don't mean to give anyone ideas, but let's say I figured out that one of these unmarked buildings was an AWS data center, and I blew it up. Are you saying that it's so backed up and redundant that you probably wouldn't notice?" "Yeah, you wouldn't notice. I mean, we might be a bit upset, but you wouldn't notice!" Wood laughed.
AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good Iranian strikes overwhelmed regional redundancy in Bahrain and left one UAE Availability Zone inaccessible Dan Robinson IT INFRASTRUCTURE REPORTER 25 Published Wed 16 Sept 2026 // 12:11 UTC READ MORE Nvidia goes green to keep grid capacity from zapping its revenues now Your AI agents' reports and questions have a new inbox, courtesy of AWS 1 day ago Higher-enriched uranium for datacenters has DoE all aglow 1 day ago Teravolt looks to cannibalize older industries to meet AI power demand 2 days ago Nvidia's Groq acquihire is on the DOJ's radar, but it's already too late 4 days ago Amazon Web Services (AWS) says it is unable to restore access to resources and data in some of its Availability Zones in the Middle East after datacenters were damaged during the US war with Iran. In an update to its AWS Health Dashboard, the cloud giant confirmed that anything hosted exclusively in its Bahrain Region (me-south-1) remains inaccessible. "The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand," the update says. "After a thorough assessment, we have determined that we are unable to restore access to the resources and data hosted exclusively in this Region." After the first Bahrain Availability Zone was damaged in March, AWS advised customers to migrate their workloads to other Regions. The company said most did so before further attacks disrupted a second Availability Zone in April and rendered the entire Region unavailable. AWS has reached a similar conclusion about one Availability Zone in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), saying it cannot re-establish access to the resources and data hosted there. The affected Zone, mec1-az2, is one of three in AWS's UAE Region. Two AWS facilities in the country were hit by drones back in March as Iran retaliated against US-Israeli strikes on its territory.