Iranian strikes on Amazon data centers highlight industry's vulnerability

https://apnews.com/article/amazon-aws-data-center-uae-iran-bahrain-71066b0a822c4cfd88b61e3fe79af917

Comments

juliusceasarMar 24, 2026, 7:15 PM
Israel and USA provoked the destruction of so many people, just like Russia. Purest for of evil, nothing can be done against such an evil force.
kevincloudsecMar 24, 2026, 7:28 PM
cloud providers design for software failures and network partitions. they do not design for drone strikes. the redundancy model assumes your availability zones won't get hit by the same military operation.
calgooMar 24, 2026, 10:10 PM
Thats what regions are for... AZ downtime is one thing, if you loose the region, you should be able to bring up your services in another region.
ChrisArchitectMar 24, 2026, 8:47 PM
March 3rd post OP;

Related discussion at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47209781

BatFastardMar 24, 2026, 7:20 PM
Seems like a great opportunity for the "Boring Co" to start specializing in digging underground bunkers for data centers. You KNOW our AI Overlords are going to want it!
general1465Mar 25, 2026, 7:55 AM
Datacenters under ground have similar problem to datacenters in the space - it is hard to cool them down.

https://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/how-engineers-are-f...

nosrepaMar 24, 2026, 9:29 PM
I thought space was the plan?