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I hope any Microsoft infra greyboards who were canned during these recent rounds of layoffs are feeling deservedly content as they watch what's left of Microsoft hoisting itself by its own petard.

It's clear from the wording of the updates that Microsoft took the better part of a day to even figure out what was happening, and that they're throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks, instead of following the kind of precise recovery plan that they would have had, had they understood their own systems.

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> MEC1-AZ2 being a smoking hole.

What do you expect amz to do about the drone strikes haha.

if you absolutely needed your servers in an active war zone for some reason cant imagine you'd have five 9s either

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Oh, I don’t expect anything from Amazon after their first such wartime incident.

That being said, I do distinctly remember being called an alarmist for warning that if a plurality of compute is in one physical area, and said compute serves a large amount of customers, then that space is a gigantic soft target.

“Nobody is going to attack a datacenter, stego-tech, you’re being completely unreasonable.”

Mmm, delicious schadenfreude.

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"It seemed like a good idea at the time", especially when the people holding the purse strings think it's cheaper that way. So we drive without a safety belt because a safety belt would cost money.
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