Not funny think of their portfolios you callous jerk

No, this is a valid military target.

They're doing this because aws is running the cloud computing for the US military, which is using AI to process SIGINT and then determine which schools to bomb in Iran.

Jokes aside it is a weird feeling to approve of something done by a regime I am otherwise so opposed to.

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Critical_support

... Which you would think would be enough of a monopoly to break a company apart.

Nothing to worry about here!

No one told the dumbasses to put all their eggs in one basket

Yes, but they're not evenly distributed across regions. You could take out every non-US and non-EU AWS region, and most of the top-500 traffic AWS sites would still be up.

Just a reminder that aws has military contracts

Multicloud

We almost always do two internet providers. And two different backup storage providers.

Managing infrastructure already sucks ass on AWS; i can't imagine using another abstraction layer on top that has to account for the "quirks" of that and other cloud providers

my last workplace used the top three cloud providers, though mostly because it helped with sales since customers on Azure wouldn't necessarily have to deal with AWS stuff (even if we really preferred to touch Azure)

it was a huge pain in a lot of ways, but manageable, and downright smart to not be at the mercy of just AWS or GCP

Literally every cloud company

A company that has operations in the Middle East. Proximity matters quite a bit when networking at scale. Networking across Tier 1/2 carriers gets expensive quickly, and is hard to justify when you can put the datacenter closer to the customers.

Well the gulf countries was stable until the idiot and war criminal trump started this illegal war