[butler14]

Any chance this is causing the claude issues directly/indirectly?

[lyu07282]

Most people assume its because of the influx in chatgpt users switching to claude. 295% daily uninstall hike of ChatGPT: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/chatgpt-uninstalls-surged-...

[LAC-Tech]

Why would they funnel all their traffic to a middle eastern AZ?

[DavidSJ]

Capacity is tight, you serve from where you can.

[aurareturn]

Probably also because most token use cases are not latency sensitive. A 200ms extra delay isn't going to change much for most use cases.

[anamexis]

Right, so if they were able to get a discount in UAE…

[joe_mamba]

> U.S. Military Using Anthropic for Middle East Airstrikes[1]

> Strikes hit AWS datacenter

> Antropic aided strikes causes Anthropic outage lol

[1] https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-strikes-2026/card/u-s-...

[tamirzb]

This comment makes it seem as if it's the US who striked the Amazon data center.

[temp0826]

The US lost 3 of its own fighter jets yesterday due to friendly fire[0], is it out of the realm of possibility?

[0] https://newrepublic.com/post/207197/us-shoots-three-fighter-...

[joe_mamba]

US tax dollars blowing up US tax dollars. Lockheed Martin and Boeing stonks go up.

[astrange]

Generally speaking defense contractors do not make more money during wars, because we start asking them to make low-margin realistic stuff, whereas in peace time we get bored and start paying them to design imaginary superweapons.

But we also usually don't blow up our own planes I suppose.

[joe_mamba]

>Generally speaking defense contractors do not make more money during wars

US economy is not in war mode right now in order to ask its contractors to make cheap stuff.

[BlobberSnobber]

It wasn't the US attacking the UAE, just FYI.

[wongarsu]

I find it more likely that Anthropic has rented space in other data centers in the region that were also impacted by Iranian retaliation