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		Cthulhu_ 59 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 Nah, because European services should not be affected by a failure in the US. Whatever systems they have running in us-east-1 should have failovers in all major regions. Today it's an outage in Virginia, tomorrow it could be an attack on undersea cables (which I'm confident are mined and ready to be severed at this point by multiple parties).

protocolture 58 days ago [–]

Mined? My understanding is that they are maintained too regularly for that, or we would know.

Also, lots of the bad guy boogeymen countries have legal and technical methods to do this without property damage. Just blackhole a bunch of routes.

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