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Re:I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with... by tacLog on Monday August 10, 2020 @08:48PM (#24116049)
Might be a bit strange as you are saying this is a example of bad planning but my employer was discussing this today. We had a hard time finding options, what did you end up deploying or did you develop your own in house?
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Re:I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with... by mey on Monday August 10, 2020 @09:20PM (#24116253)
You want to search for "PDU remote management"

Edit: Another term is Switched PDU

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Re:I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with... by rcxdude on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @05:01PM (#24125932)
When I had this issue I just bought some cheap wifi 'smart sockets' which had some open-source firmware available and reflashed them. They even support reporting the voltage and current draw from the socket (though not particularly accurately) and toggling the power through a POST (with a password if set). Was very useful for power cycling various bits of hardware remotely.
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