Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers
arstechnica.com
AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on.
  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 days ago

    I remember Bezos at the inauguration. He’s spent millions on the administration, including the inaugural party and financing not only the first lady’s documentary, but its positive reviews. All of them. And that’s just the highlights; Bezos has given so much to promote this administration at every turn.

    Glad to see this kind of multiplicative return on his investment. He is very literally getting the presidential experience he paid for.

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    371·
    3 days ago

    Damn it! We specifically said not to attack those!

    Okay. One more time! Here’s the no-go list:

    • xAI
    • OpenAI
    • Palantir
    • Oracle
    • Amazon
    • Microsoft
    • Google
    • Meta

    How hard is that!?!?

  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
    467·
    3 days ago

    Because that’s what the news audience is interested in: the impact of the latest war on Amazon data centers. Which can be rebuilt and are owned by people with more than enough resources to do so endlessly.

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      371·
      3 days ago
      • the news isn’t limited to this one article
      • publicizing news about the consequences of war, no matter the scale, incentivizes those involved to push for an end to conflict. Investors don’t like it when companies have to spend money to rebuild things
      • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        3 days ago

        Nah. The comments that say “duh, we already knew that.” And “borrrring” are always right.

        (I agree with the otter)

      • paraplu@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Major damage to US corporate infrastructure seems more likely to have a real impact on the length of the war. Heart wrenching stories about humanitarian crises don’t seem to have that sort of impact. Even if they would, there are too many of these stories to draw sustained public interest in any single event or group of related events. Corporate involvement at least has a board who has to try to take action on behalf of investors. It wouldn’t be a romantic end, but it might be better than nothing.

    • piwakawakas@lemmy.nzEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      And yet I’m sure they’ll somehow find a way to make the little guy pay for the repairs