Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets

• Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Everything runs on us-east-1 lol

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  • Lydia_K@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are at least two services I know of off the top of my head that rely on us-east-1, so even if you are using them in another region if us-east-1 goes down, so does that service in all regions (and so does your app)

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    • noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      IAM and Route53?

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      • Lydia_K@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Bingo.

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• gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m far from an expert, but it seems like if one cloud node goes down, pay hackers to slam everything with bot traffic and the system is brought to its knees.

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  • kablez@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Correct. Plus it may not be as resilient as we think. Just because they’re billion dollar companies doesn’t mean they don’t follow the tradition of building systems with duct tape and a prayer.

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In the age of MBA management, the removal of resilience such as fallback systems because “they’re doing nothing” is the norm.

      Nowadays Engineering stuff isn’t done according to Engineering Principles if it conflicts with short term profit maximization.

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    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also even if the digital infrastructure is resilient, what about the physical infrastructure? A couple sticks of Nobels great invention and viola there’s now a gaping hole in your power transmission infrastructure or in the building itself if access can be achieved.

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      • kablez@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not to mention the diminished teams who are now under resourced to handle their existing workloads. I’m sure they will do great as things spiral because the sloppy work of the AI has increased their workload, not reduced it. As the cracks begin to form on the human side of things, nothing could possibly go wrong. After all, the human element of any system is often the most secure. /s

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• njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Having worked in several large public clouds, I will always keep a local backup of my cloud data even if I am snapshotting it and even if I’m using geographic replication. Too easy for a misunderstanding or a bug to result in all my stuff getting deleted.

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