Re:Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" ...
by bobmcnamara on Friday April 03, 2026 @07:36PM
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Some systems are anycast and available in many datacenters for bandwidth cost reasons. Netflix used to deploy content caches in ISP edges.
But any single central point of failure might break them. Things like, is this account paid? Dunno!
Re:Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" ...
by UltraSane on Friday April 03, 2026 @08:59PM
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Netflix and Youtube both still use caches in ISP edges. The internet would melt without them.
Re:Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" ...
by gmerc on Saturday April 04, 2026 @05:08AM
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Which is why bitcoin was always a ready really dumb idea as “end times hedge”
Re:Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" ...
by sph on Saturday April 04, 2026 @05:58AM
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In the "end times" where computers stop working and we don't even have electricity, your dollars in your digital bank account will be equally useless, and dollar banknotes will be used as fire starter.
Bitcoin was never designed as a post-collapse currency.
If your threat model includes war and you want to have some of the conveniences of the Internet, you should make plans for how to host local copies of data and develop local-scale communications for the people you regularly talk with. The Internet is too big of a security and propaganda risk for governments to allow it to continue to exist when they are engaged in a real existential war.