Essentially, he was trying to assure us that no-no-no, we don’t need multiple zones like the public clouds, they can instead guarantee 100% uninterrupted power under all circumstances.
A bit bored and annoyed, I pointed to the giant red button conspicuously placed in the middle of a pillar and asked what it is for.
“Oh, that’s in case there’s a fire!”
“What does it do?”
“It cuts… the power… uhh… for the safety of the fire department.”
“So… if there’s a wisp of smoke in a corner somewhere, the fireys turn up, the first thing they do is… cut the power?”
“… yes.”
“Not 100% then, is it?”
There was a locally very funny situation for a while when a tech influencer was insisting both equinix sites could be shut down by a single building collapse. He was wrong, but he wasn't so wrong that people shouldn't make better infrastructure decisions.
one day, a colo customer hit the wrong button on the way out, and uhh, there was an outage
this would require human intervention and I am a bit worried what if the strike can happen again and human lives might be lost.
IIRC there have been cases in history where sometimes a same location is targeted across multiple days. Obviously, AWS might have local employees working in the region but would there be an evaluation of this threat itself within the relevant team in AWS. What if they try to bring the service back but then missiles are struck again and what if human lives might be lost on it. Let's just hope that it could be part of a evaluation as well.
Both Americans and Israelis are known for double taps. Surely Iran can adapt their tactics too.
that's the difference between heroes and ordinary employees who bitch about having to go into the office twice a month.
same as the stories you hear of guys taking snow-cats up a mountain in a blizzard to restore phone circuits or radio transmitters gone offline.
Amazon has self-propelled robots that handle their logistics and fulfillment, don't they? Send in the robots.