Back in the early 2000’s I worked at Akamai, and as part of my training I spent time in their Network Operations Center. They have equipment in literally thousands of data centers around the world, and rely on the datacenter staff for any physical work.
One day I was looking at old tickets in the NOC and found one that had been open for a few years and apparently abandoned. It was about an entire rack of gear at a small Midwest ISP that had stopped responding. The NOC staff had tried all their typical remote troubleshooting then reached out to the ISP for physical troubleshooting.
The last comment in the ticket stated that the datacenter had been destroyed by a tornado.
40 Comments
GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world · 113 pts · 173d
You helped make it happen, Bezos. Now eat your shit sandwich.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 173d
This is what insurance is for. He wont pay a dime over the deductible.
Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 39 pts · 173d
Pretty much every single insurance policy has a terrorism or war exception.
There are policies for both of those, but they tend to be much more expensive.
Some companies self insure.
grue@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 172d
I would especially expect that of a company like Amazon that's bigger than the insurers (and re-insurers) themselves.
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 172d
The US government will just have tax payers give a bailout.
logi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 173d
The premiums just went way up though, and at some point insurers will just refuse.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 171d
He'll demand Tax money bailout
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 172d
He is not profiting or expanding. You can't just spawn infinite data centers
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world · 84 pts · 173d
The stupidity of waging war in an interconnected world for no reason is getting clearer by the day.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 173d
We found out recently it was "to bring the biblical end times."
Turns out the only thing US government loves more than religious extremism was projecting it to minorities.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 172d
BillyClark@piefed.social · 10 pts · 172d
WW3 is between evangelical christians and everyone else who just want to survive.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 172d
I know of a hack the evangelicals can use to get to the Kingdom of Heaven much faster and save us the trouble
StillAlive@piefed.world · 41 pts · 173d
"Data centre unavailable for the foreseeable future. Ticket closed."
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 172d
Back in the early 2000’s I worked at Akamai, and as part of my training I spent time in their Network Operations Center. They have equipment in literally thousands of data centers around the world, and rely on the datacenter staff for any physical work.
One day I was looking at old tickets in the NOC and found one that had been open for a few years and apparently abandoned. It was about an entire rack of gear at a small Midwest ISP that had stopped responding. The NOC staff had tried all their typical remote troubleshooting then reached out to the ISP for physical troubleshooting.
The last comment in the ticket stated that the datacenter had been destroyed by a tornado.
grue@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 172d
Why would they not close the ticket as "WONTFIX" or something in that situation?
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 172d
My guess is that they hoped to eventually replace the equipment if/when the datacenter was rebuilt.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 39 pts · 173d
Damn. Shouldn’t have donated to short term gains: the party. Get fucked
Serinus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 173d
"What do you mean the 'short term gains' were three quarters ago. 'Short term' is supposed to mean the next couple quarters, always."
ceenote@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 173d
Oh no! Anyway...
remon@ani.social · 33 pts · 172d
That's a casualty of war I'm more than willing to accept.
thefluffiest@feddit.nl · 33 pts · 173d
And nothing of value was lost
treadful@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 173d
Didn't expect the datacenter wars to start so soon.
Etterra@discuss.online · 24 pts · 173d
Who's smirking now, Amazon?
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com · 16 pts · 173d
God's work.
TheSlad@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 173d
Neat!
trashboat@piefed.social · 16 pts · 173d
Just FYI this isn’t new, happened a month ago if I’m not mistaken
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 172d
That was Dubai, no?
trashboat@piefed.social · 4 pts · 172d
Both Dubai and Bahrain, which are still lit up on the AWS health dashboard
Tetragrade@leminal.space · 15 pts · 172d
Inshallah 🙌
alexquiniou@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 172d
Oh shiit ... Anyway
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 172d
Fuck do I need to start making multi region backups now
sexy_peach@feddit.org · 8 pts · 172d
haha, good
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 173d
This is so low on the list of things to care about in the current situation it’s ridiculous.
Unless it’s the only datacentre hosting critical infrastructure, then you can care, but not on a weekend.
SacralPlexus@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 173d
Hey I care about this. Hearing that Amazon data centers are literally being bombed is like a little spot of joy in all of this.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 172d
Hey, that’s true!
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 171d
I'm just thinking...how do I sign up for this?
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 172d
🎉
herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 171d
What's the support ticket code for Shahed hit?
rumba@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 171d
get ready for your taxes to pay a few more billion to Bezos.
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 171d