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asdfman123 • yesterday at 9:28 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

Yeah, it contradicted my intuition as a developer. If you take down a data center it isn't gone forever. The development team does not live there. Even if it's poorly backed up they're going to rebuild it.


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nixass • yesterday at 9:39 PM

> If you take down a data center it isn't gone forever.

AWS abandoned Bahrain as a region completely after data center strikes. All Infra went to the scrap

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duskwuff • today at 2:31 AM

> If you take down a data center it isn't gone forever.

Given the active sanctions against Russia, as well as high worldwide prices for components like memory and storage, rebuilding these datacenters is going to be an exceptionally slow and costly process. And I can't imagine Yandex is going to be eager to rebuild immediately given the potential for a "double-tap".

robot_jesus • yesterday at 9:33 PM

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.

input_sh • yesterday at 9:49 PM

Counter-argument: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Both 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.

Fordec • yesterday at 9:46 PM

Most people making memes never built multicloud or across geo regions