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  throwaway836123
  As someone who has lived most of his life in Iran, I ask those who find any alignment with the IRGC to please understand that it is a religiously fanatic military and terrorist group.They are behind many atrocities in Iran and in the region including the situation in Gaza (partially). They also provided weaponry and support to Russia against Ukraine.
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  input_sh
  After this strike, the only AWS region in the ME that remains operational is the one in Tel Aviv (a bit ironic if you ask me).UAE has been down for months, Bahrain is now offline, Saudi Arabia is still under construction.
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  tailscaler2026
  Despite the destruction, me-south-1 still has more nines than us-east-1
• rootsudo
  1. Wow this is a headline.2. It’s expected and war, and while war is not good, I wonder about data backups and succession planning for this.3. It makes sense they would’ve had a fire drill and reviewed since it’s a capital investment, 6 months of war, at the same time Bahrain is considered stable, so I really wonder about the conversation around this and if there was any disaster planning with this scenario in mind.4. If there wasn’t, I’m sure there is now across all regions of AWS.This month has been for me, a uptick in unique headlines that I wouldn’t have thought would happen.
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  loufe
  As an aside: I lack the vocabulary, but man those interactive "stats" cards scream LLM-written to me. No problem with it, necessarily, just something about that style seems to raise a flag in my mind.
• freediddy
  How long will it take to rebuild those datacenters given the supply shortage? Are we talking like 3+ years?
• dhx
  AWS's 3 data centres in me-south-1 are:BAH53 (Manama): https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1492345589 An adjoining substation to BAH53 had one of it's two main buildings damaged/destroyed about 2026-07-16 per https://soaratlas.com/maps/asia-damage-to-data-center-power-substation-bahrain-jul-16th-2026-142024 Then about 2026-07-22 BAH53 itself was damaged/destroyed per https://soaratlas.com/maps/asia-damage-to-amazon-web-services-bahrain-jul-22nd-2026-142112 Possibly the least defended of the three sites as there is no air/missile defence battery in between this site and Iran. BAH54 (Zallaq): https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1359931661 No media reports about this data centre being attacked previously. Possibly the safest of the three as there are at least two (probably three) air/missile defence batteries in between this site and Iran. BAH55 (Hamala): https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/956069872 Apparently the Batelco DC.1 data centre adjoining (and apparently critical to) BAH55 was damaged/destroyed about 2026-04-01 per https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgk28nj0lrjo _or_ the adjoining substation to these two facilities was damaged/destroyed -- news articles are hard to follow as to what exactly might have been damaged and the extent of damage caused. Middle ground for defence with one or two (maybe three) air/missile defence batteries between this site and Iran, depending on where drones/missiles are launched from. If these data centres are rebuilt, you'd maybe expect them to be rebuilt in new locations behind existing _permanent_ (and seemingly quite expensive) air/missile defence batteries in Bahrain (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1492281507 and https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1492953902). Based on the permanency of those air/missile defence batteries it doesn't look like the government of Bahrain are expecting things to get safer for data centre hosting in Bahrain any time soon.
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  Neil44
  Shows unavailable, last status update 30th April https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
• Macha
  Between this and the Wildberries depot strikes in Ukraine, I think it really highlights how much peace was required to make the centralisation we've experienced work.
• rob74
  I wonder how the real House of Saud would feel about having their name used by some random news website? Not amused, probably...
• megous
  Play with fire... if you sell services to store intelligence on occupied population to the occupant, and have no qualms about it, should anyone care you get your shit bombed from time to time? Just comes with the territory. Aside from hating how much real resources are wasted on pointless wars and assholery between people, at least this is fair.
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• ulfw
  Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
• axus
  I guess Anthropic is safe, since they aren't military infrastructure
• xyzsparetimexyz
  Soo.. Is this bullish for the stock price or nah?
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  drnick1
  It seems only fair that Iran's frozen funds be permanently seized and used to pay for damages caused to Amazon, ships, and other facilities it targeted during the war.