> If you take down a data center it isn't gone forever.
replyAWS abandoned Bahrain as a region completely after data center strikes. All Infra went to the scrap
Well, yeah. They relocated their data and their services elsewhere. It didn't go away.
replyI doubt Yandex would ever be able to leave Russia, even if it wanted to.
Counter-argument: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
replyBoth were struck over half a year ago and me-south-01 (Bahrain) appears to be gone permanently, while the data loss in me-central-01 (UAE) is limited to one of the availability zones.
I don’t think many people were believing it was solved forever but just that there was a momentary disruption/decrease while they rebuilt it. But according to this report, even that impact was highly exaggerated.
replyMost people making memes never built multicloud or across geo regions
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