AWS Middle East disrupted after ‘objects struck datacenter’ amid Iran war

One of Amazon Web Services’ availability zones in the United Arab Emirates is offline after the facility was hit by unknown objects. Amazon’s status page indicated a “localized power issue has affected a single Availability Zone in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region (mec1-az2)” as of 5:19 AM PST on March 1st. At 9:41 AM the same day AWS …

[Chris Gray 1]

Start building your bunkers!!!!!

Bad idea, Samsung - don't you people watch movies?

The deaths will start around the new factory. Or perhaps the AI/Robots will be sneaky and start somewhere else first....

[DS999]

Re: Start building your bunkers!!!!!

I don't think we need to start worrying too much until we have much better battery technology. I wouldn't be surprised if Samsung's humanoid robots are tethered, because otherwise they have to swap out for charging. Within a confined space like a fab where there would be infrastructure for it, it probably makes more sense to have them powered from above. That would give them enough play to deal with one or a small group of machines on the line. There is no advantage to giving each one the full run of the facility.

[WolfFan]

I don’t think that just now is the best time

to think about flying thingies in the UAE and environs. Bad-tempered Iranians are throwing things, and the Yankees are trying to shoot them down and are sending a few things to Iran. I suspect that neither of them will pay any attention whatsoever to anything else in the air at the same time as their toys. Personally I'd not recommend flying anywhere west of Islamabad or east of Cyprus. I don't have the greatest confidence in either side's accuracy.

[MiguelC]

Re: I don’t think that just now is the best time

Yankees' friends are apparently quite accurate, although not that friendly in their accuracy

[lglethal]

WiseTech thanks, no thanks.

WiseTech are ditching their staff and will use AI for all their programming? That's great to know.

It's great to know, as that's one more company whose crap I will never use.

I look forward to hearing about the number of security incidents caused by their AI slop, and all the other bugs that slip through and ruin users days.

Can we invent something like a Darwins award for companies? Companies that do something so stupid it basically kills their entire company? Maybe the CEO can be given the award?

I'm thinking Kodak, or Ratner levels of stupid. Time will tell, but I expect to see WiseTech proving that just like any nation with the word Democratic in the name is anything but, any company with Wise in the name is equally unlikely to be actually controlled by people you would consider wise...

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: WiseTech thanks, no thanks.

Mircoslop sadly seems to keep getting away with this negative behaviour.

[tiggity]

Maybe a reason why

Claims used by Israel military

[Anonymous Coward]

How long before data centres all have private air defence? Also opencompute designs for drone investors. Gotta protect those AI bits barns... Then when the AI takes over it can use them to keep those pesky meat bags at bay from it's onsite nuclear power source.

Maybe data centres should be far away from power generation. The transition losses maybe worth it for meatbag survival.