June 2023: a Google data center in France floods and they call it a “water intrusion event”

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus@cyberplace.social]

@mbpaz @DaveFlater @0xabad1dea I'd be genuinely curious to know how that will work. Ballistic missiles are definitely nation-state coded in ways that truck bombs are not; but my understanding is that insurance contracts usually distinguish between 'war' other violent damage by legal status rather than delivery method.

I also think I've been told that the "Malayan Emergency" was so classified in order to try to avoid war-related insurance conditions, so it has been tried before.

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange I see a zone-name like "mec1" and I assumed it was in mecca. Looks like it was in UAE, though?

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@m@martinh.net @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

Needed a grumpy-cat "NO" emoji.

[0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange]

@ferricoxide I think it's "Middle East – Central"

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@tml@mementomori.social @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

Datacenters aren't usually built right next to other buildings (except other datacenters). I would more assume that it was literal debris from a fully- or partially-successful intercept. UAE does have Patriot missile batteries and the debris from an intercept has to go somewhere (and I'd assume that an actual/direct missile- or drone-strike would come with a different, more-significant status).

[xssfox@cloudisland.nz]

@0xabad1dea maybe should have corrected that bucket policy

[tml@mementomori.social]

@0xabad1dea Also, how do we know that it was a ballistic missile and not a drone?

Yes, I am fun at parties.

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

Which is weird, because UAE would seem more like "Middle East East" or at least "mec-2" (since I'd assume the first AZ in "central" would be someplace more central to the region like, say, Riyadh).

[capnthommo@c.im]

@mkj @0xabad1dea ah yes. Of course

[rairii@labyrinth.zone]

@0xabad1dea ok now i'm imagining the opening strike of a war being on us-east-1

[karl@infosec.exchange]

@0xabad1dea there's a word for that in every language, and English chose "cowardice".

[guillotine_jones@beige.party]

@0xabad1dea
Well, objects (large and explosive) DID strike the Amazon data center.
What's yer point?
(Here I'm being sarcastic.)

[heartofcoyote@neuromatch.social]

@m @0xabad1dea badum *kish*!

[0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange]

if you want to @ me about how akshually it was probably a DRONE not a MISSILE, then no matter how good a grade you got in ballistic impact analysis, you're getting an F in The Point

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@0xabad1dea ah yes, just a drone. cuddly, friendly weapons of war, they wouldn't i dunno, cause a fire like they did

[rey@toot.cat]

@slothrop @HeNeArXn @0xabad1dea latest update:

"We are expecting recovery to take at least a day, as it requires repair of facilities, cooling and power systems, coordination with local authorities, and careful assessment to ensure the safety of our operators."

yeah that's gonna take a bit

[crowbriarhexe@tech.lgbt]

@0xabad1dea somebody accidentally deployed a J2EE application

[starkraving666@jorts.horse]

@0xabad1dea no politics at Amazon!

[tony@toot.hoyle.me.uk]

@0xabad1dea "We recommend customers enact their disaster recovery plans and recover from remote backups"

So.. not just a localised power issue then?

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@0xabad1dea

That's certainly a different issues from "a duck in a secure data center" ‍️