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

[icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz]

@Rairii We have always been at war with us-east-1.

[nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems]

@tony @0xabad1dea That's when they lost a *second* AZ. Several AWS services are (supposed to be) resilient to complete destruction of one AZ. If two are down they're in deeper shit.

[nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems]

@0xabad1dea @ferricoxide I think it means "Middle East central"

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@0xabad1dea Did these "objects" also "undergo rapid, premeditated disassembly"?

[floe@hci.social]

@0xabad1dea Anyone remember the icbmto: URL format?

ICBM address - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[eestileib@tech.lgbt]

@Dss @HeNeArXn @0xabad1dea

Ballistic Missile just means it finishes its burn relatively early (contrast to Cruise Missile eg).

There are many sizes and payloads, they aren't all nuclear.

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

Lulz, two datacenters:

Mar 02 6:22 AM PST We continue to work towards recovery of the two impaired Availability Zones (mec1-az2 and mec1-az3) in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region. 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. EC2, Amazon DynamoDB and other AWS Services continue to experience significant error rates and elevated latencies.

We recommend customers enact their disaster recovery plans and recover from remote backups into alternate AWS Regions, ideally in Europe. Further, we strongly advise customers to update their applications to ingest S3 data to an alternate AWS Region. We will provide an update by 11:00 AM PST on March 2, or sooner if we have additional information to share.

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

A friend who has in-laws living in Dubai said:

some of the school's' remote learning apps don't work because local companies used local infrastructure.

[darwinwoodka@mastodon.social]

@0xabad1dea

Don't make me root for people taking out data centers

[resuna@ohai.social]

@0xabad1dea

Unplanned rapid disassembly.

[ilumium@eupolicy.social]

@0xabad1dea oh the objects created sparks and fire, wonder what it could have been

[nuwagaba2@mastodon.social]

@flipper
How can one prevent being a victim of that apocalypse?

[mark_f_lynch@mastodon.ie]

@icecolbeveridge @Rairii to be fair, if Iran did manage to hit us-east-1, would anyone believe the ensuing outage was actually war-related, as opposed to business as usual for AWS?

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@0xabad1dea

AWS outage: heat death of solar system sun. referred to as "outage due to higher than usual seasonal temperatures"

[al1ce_rabb1t@horny.jetzt]

@0xabad1dea "rapid unscheduled transformation of our digital firewall into a physical fire wall"

[woody@pleroma.pch.net]

@0xabad1dea

Haven't we always been at war with Eurasia?

[nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems]

@0xabad1dea They posted a more honest update now, "physical impacts to infrastructure as a result of drone strikes".

[dct@mastodon.online]

@0xabad1dea Next up: Electromagnetic disturbance (area-wide blackout due to nuclear missile)

[canuckduff@mas.to]

@0xabad1dea So, kitchen utensils? Small furniture?

[dss@infosec.exchange]

@eestileib @HeNeArXn @0xabad1dea Of it was a nuke, it wouldn't be back up any time soon. But it also wouldn't be from Iran. Israel or the US have nukes though. Neither are part of the worldwide nuclear monitoring program, unlike, er, Iran...