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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by antonvs on Thursday September 17, 2026 @12:15PM (#49742957)
Eleven nines covers ordinary infrastructure failures, not acts of war that physically destroy the underlying facilities.

It's similar to any engineered artifact, like a skyscraper. They have a structural safety factor that defines their resilience to failures that the system is designed to tolerate, it doesn't make them immune to missile strikes.

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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by mitxela on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:07PM (#49748976)
This is a normal failure mode in American military facilities in the Middle East. Whoever designed an American military facility in the middle east and did not intend for it to withstand missile attacks was incompetent.
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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by antonvs on Friday September 18, 2026 @12:15AM (#49750133)
You think you can cover up your misunderstanding of how reliability numbers work with zealotry?
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