IRGC Claims It Destroyed Amazon's Bahrain Data Center

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throwaw12•17 minutes ago

I feel for both, people who where hosting there not expecting this war and this attack and the attackers, because they didn't attack just because they wanted but attacked as a response as stated earlier.

Winner: US military industrial complex + Israel

Losers: Everyone else

tailscaler2026•about 1 hour ago

Despite the destruction, me-south-1 still has more nines than us-east-1

lukewarm707•about 1 hour ago

this datacenter appears to be 99.99 percent destroyed

inigyou•7 minutes ago

There's usually more than one datacenter in an AZ.

loufe•about 1 hour ago

As an aside: I lack the vocabulary, but man those interactive "stats" cards scream LLM-written to me. No problem with it, necessarily, just something about that style seems to raise a flag in my mind.

meshweaver•14 minutes ago

They are certainly LLM-generated. I'm sure it's been done, but I would love to see a comprehensive look into what it is exactly that makes a UI seem LLM-generated.

From what I can tell, the issues are: Fonts are too small, secondary fonts have terrible contrast with their backgrounds, information is too dense/not enough white space, overuse of blinking/glowing status dots, overuse of bordered elements, and overuse of accented elements. I am surely forgetting some other issues.

I'm not sure why there seems to be a consistent set of design mistakes that LLMs tend toward.

decimalenough•about 1 hour ago

The entire houseofsaud.com site appears to be LLM-generated, I wouldn't trust a single thing it says.

Neil44•about 1 hour ago

Used for translation maybe? I tried to scan to see which plugins, but it had two responses for me, and the second one was 'off'

csomar•about 1 hour ago

I wouldn't trust a single thing it says even if it was human-generated.

hagen8•12 minutes ago

This is the claude code frontend-skill.

tyleo•about 1 hour ago

Part of it is the clash with the pages UI. Dark black cards in the middle of a light theme.

Neil44•about 2 hours ago

Shows unavailable, last status update 30th April https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

gortok•about 2 hours ago

Makes me wonder how much use it actually gets if this is the first we’re hearing about it.

Edit: Incidentally news of the original strike was posted on HN 5 months ago and flagged, for whatever reason. Why would it be flagged? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317587

appreciatorBus•about 2 hours ago

> Why would it be flagged?

Because individual HN users do the flagging and many are tired of the inevitable and pointless Israel v Palestine proxy comment war that predictably erupts on any topic related to the Middle East.

throwaw12•13 minutes ago

> and pointless Israel v Palestine proxy comment war

Why is it pointless to inform and remind others about what Israel did in the region?

cobolcomesback•32 minutes ago

There were almost daily posts in HNs front page about it 4 months ago when it first happened, as well as front page headlines on CNN and WSJ and other news outlets, though they quickly got drowned out by all of the other Iran war stories when the war first broke out.

This is just one of the popular ones, but there were also tens of posts about it with only 1-10 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641788

Here’s another popular one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632503

The reason it’s not really news this week is because both the Bahrain and the Dubai regions have been effectively non-operational for the last 4 months, so the IRGC saying they destroyed an already-destroyed region is less newsworthy.

oneplane•about 2 hours ago

It's been extensively reported on, and any AWS user that clicks on the health dashboard would also have seen it, even if they don't consume from news outlets.

As for use it gets: plenty of use, mostly when someone needs to have their worlds close to that area (usually latency or legal reasons). There are a lot of smaller businesses that lost a lot (or maybe even everything) because their never thought they would need to create backups in a different region. Most of that wasn't really reported on but instead gets shared on various platforms like Reddit.

orwin•about 1 hour ago

The only reason we knew about it is that it was one of our network output 'node', but I don't think I've read anything about it in generalist medias

malfist•about 1 hour ago

Are you implying that something that gets reported on, shouldn't be on HN? Also, clearly it wasn't that extensive if GP hadn't heard about it

antonymoose•about 2 hours ago

Oftentimes discussions get killed not because the source article is bad but because the discussions themselves devolve into flame bait/war?

gortok•about 2 hours ago

Having reviewed the comments I don’t see any indication of why it would be flagged for the discussion.

dmurray•about 2 hours ago

> Makes me wonder how much use it actually gets if this is the first we’re hearing about it.

Or how good their HA/failover strategy must be.

Although losing one data centre from an availability zone seems like exactly the kind of issue AWS plan for and handle well, and does not take down the whole AZ. By contrast with "our BGP config got messed up".

wilburx3•16 minutes ago

Sat Photo https://soaratlas.com/maps/asia-damage-to-amazon-web-service...

self•about 1 hour ago

There was a building hit near the data center on the first day of the war and that took down one AZ (unfortunately, two of my three EC2 instances were in that AZ). The hit on April 1 pretty much took it all down. Fortunately I had relatively up-to-date backups (both within 24 hours before each outage) so all I lost was a little email (spam) and some libera chat logs. I've moved to ap-southeast-1, which means trading a ~ 60ms ping to ~ 110ms.

lukewarm707•about 1 hour ago

me-south-1 is in fact, quite possibly permanently, "offline".

londons_explore•15 minutes ago

I'm kinda surprised Amazon didn't send a team to collect all storage devices from the wreckage and ship them elsewhere to be connected to the network for recovery.

SG-•7 minutes ago

I'm surprised you'd think sending civilians into a war zone is a good thing.

pbiggar•13 minutes ago

> The AWS strikes did not emerge from an improvised targeting decision. On March 31, 2026, the IRGC formally declared eighteen US technology companies “legitimate military targets” — Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Meta, Oracle, Intel, HP, IBM, Cisco, Dell, Nvidia, Palantir, Tesla, Boeing, General Electric, JPMorgan Chase, and G42, the Abu Dhabi-based AI firm.

Given these companies are selling the AI and cloud tech that's used by US and Israel in their invasions, wars, genocides, etc, it's no surprised that they would be deemed dual use.

pbiggar•11 minutes ago

Fwiw, there is tons of evidence of these company's complicity with Israel's occupation (it's probably a much longer list if we want to look at those that enable the US' wars).

Most recently the UN report: https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ahrc5923-...

pbiggar•9 minutes ago

Relevant section:

Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon grant Israel virtually government-wide access to their cloud and artificial intelligence technologies, enhancing data processing, decision making and surveillance and analysis capacities. [99] In October 2023, when the Israeli internal military cloud overloaded, [100] Microsoft, with its Azure platform, and the Project Nimbus consortium stepped in with critical cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure. [101] Their Israel-located servers ensure data sovereignty and a shield from accountability, [102] under favourable contracts offering minimal restrictions or oversight. [103] In July 2024, an Israeli colonel described cloud tech as a weapon in every sense of the word, citing these companies. [104]

drstewart•7 minutes ago

Glad you think that, cofounder of "tech for Palestine".

Now let's hear your thoughts on the designation of dual-use targets in Gaza by Israel.

hn7jmxa7oc•25 minutes ago

Not sure I agree but you made me think