Wild - both that it has been the first time ever that multiple cloud data centers were knocked out by military strikes (never happened before thru the history of the cloud) and for a region to seemingly permanently go offline / be damaged so bad to be potentially decommissioned
#### AJ Stuyvenberg
@astuyve · 3d ago
AWS has officially removed all EC2 instances in Bahrain from their docs. I don't think it's coming back anytime soon:
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Commentary on the unprecedented event of a cloud data center region being permanently decommissioned due to military conflict.
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The author highlights the significant and unprecedented nature of the AWS Bahrain region being taken offline by military strikes, noting the rarity of cloud infrastructure being physically destroyed by conflict and the potential for permanent decommissioning.
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