People who don't understand what they are buying almost always find out the hard way.

Neither Amazon or Islamic Republic of Iran need your money, friend. Buy yourself a nice hat in stead.

"It's the only way to be sure."

I expect Iran already hires Americans for unorganized sabotage, I know both Iran and Russia utilises Telegram to hire teenagers "torpedoes" as they're called among mobsters.

It's a fully gangster technique, but it's effective. One example would be when the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen had two kids attempt to throw a grenade their way in 2024 - It's proven to be related to Foxtrot (the largest Swedish organised crime syndicate), which Iran has influence on through one of the leaders living in Iran

I mean you’re supposed to use multi-region backups

* But only if you pay for the most redundant storage, which cost all the money.

You have complete choice whether you centralise your data or not.

I think pretty much every software dev has used AWS at some time, and when you set up new services, it specifically warns you to use multiple geographic areas for your services. It doesn't say "war" or something, only that it's good for redundancy, IIRC.

So anyway, yes, I follow instructions, but I'm always surprised that you have software people and systems admins who can't even follow basic instructions. I don't know what percentage of people it is, but it feels like over 50% who can't follow even the simplest instructions.

A not insignificant part of my first azure cert covered different redundancy options and pricing. If the data was that critical, the tenants would/should have mirrored it to another region.

I've been working on Disaster Recovery for my company and the amount of sleep I'm losing on this is insane in general.

Our devs just write their own IaC stuff so like, they can provision their own databases and shit without us knowing with no backups or customer keys and stuff to back up properly.

They are intentionally designed to withstand a little bit of "war damage"?

Like an Amazon data warehouse construction guy needs to specifically add a little bit of extra cement or some shit to meet a war damage protection quota?