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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by paulddraper on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:06AM (#49739071)
All the AZs flooded simultaneously?!

How big was this flood?

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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by ExoticPearTree on Thursday September 17, 2026 @08:04AM (#49739567)
Well, this is how the world found out that Google AZs are just different rooms in the same building on the same floor.
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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by antonvs on Friday September 18, 2026 @12:32AM (#49750224)
That’s nothing, I have three AZs in my laptop.
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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by everfrustrated on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:03AM (#49740124)
Azure and GCP definitions of AZ allow a single datacenter to have multiple AZs. AWS has by far the strictest definition.
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