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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by avereveard on Thursday September 17, 2026 @01:54AM (#49736896)
Aws cto is basically opening every presentation with a everything breaks all the time slide, idk where you get that idea they oversell the cloud resilience
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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by silon42 on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:16AM (#49737469)
They could offer controlled "failure of service" service where they randomly take stuff offline and you have to pay to get it back if you don't have a backup/recovery strategy.
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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by albert_e on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:13AM (#49737842)
AWS Fault Injection Service

https://aws.amazon.com/fis/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fis/latest/userguide/what-is.htm...

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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by scott_w on Thursday September 17, 2026 @05:37AM (#49738378)
The customer CEO never watched that presentation.
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