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Re:Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" ... by michaelt on Friday April 03, 2026 @09:01PM (#47634436)
> Any cloud engineer worth their salt is going to have their programs be stateless and their data replicated across multiple data centers.

That doesn't help much in a shooting war, unfortunately.

Redundancy is great for uncorrelated outages - if a freak weather event or power problem knocks out data centres in London, and your backups in Paris and Frankfurt are unaffected.

But if there's a war and London is getting bombed? Good chance Paris and Frankfurt are also getting bombed.

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Re:Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" ... by fc417fc802 on Friday April 03, 2026 @09:16PM (#47634539)
Especially given modern weaponry. "Cheap" missiles and drones have a range that covers the better part of a continent.
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