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by ktosobcy 236 days ago
Uhm... E(U)ropean sovereigny (and in general spreading the hosting as much as possbile) needed ASAP…
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tjwebbnorfolk 236 days ago
because... EU clouds don't break?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43749178

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Cthulhu_ 236 days ago
Nah, because European services should not be affected by a failure in the US. Whatever systems they have running in us-east-1 should have failovers in all major regions. Today it's an outage in Virginia, tomorrow it could be an attack on undersea cables (which I'm confident are mined and ready to be severed at this point by multiple parties).
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protocolture 236 days ago
Mined? My understanding is that they are maintained too regularly for that, or we would know.

Also, lots of the bad guy boogeymen countries have legal and technical methods to do this without property damage. Just blackhole a bunch of routes.

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ktosobcy 236 days ago
No, it's called "diversification". Applies both to stock/currency/investments as well as enything else :P
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tjwebbnorfolk 236 days ago
ok but many providers already have regions in the EU
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BirAdam 236 days ago
Well, except for a lot of business leaders saying that they don't care if it's Amazon that goes down, because "the rest of the internet will be down too."

Dumb argument imho, but that's how many of them think ime.

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