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Amazon sold cloud computing services and A.I. tools to Israeli weapons manufacturers and Israel's Ministry of "Defense" at the height of Israel's bombardment, because of course it did.
Amazon sold it's services to the Israeli Ministry of "Defense" and the weapons manufacturers at a discounted rate, and lobbied Israel to allow it to handle classified material from the country's spy agencies
@https://theintercept.com/2025/10/24/amazon-weapons-gaza-israel-rafael-iai
The evidence of Unit 8200's abuse of Azure and the mounting evidence of Israel's genocide must have deeply concerned Microsoft execs, not because brown people are being murdered in a foreign country, but because of the potential for future lawsuits and reputation damage.
Now they are hoping they can feign ignorance and wash they're hands by ending the contract, tho Microsoft still lets the I.D.F. use it's other services
"Amazon sold cloud-computing services to two Israeli weapons manufacturers whose munitions helped devastate Gaza, according to internal company materials obtained by The Intercept.
Amazon Web Services has furnished the Israeli government — including its military and intelligence agencies — with a suite of state-of-the-art data processing and storage services since 2021 as part of its controversial Project Nimbus deal. Last year, The Intercept revealed a provision in that contract requiring Amazon and Google, the other Nimbus vendor, to sell cloud services to Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israeli Aerospace Industries, two leading Israeli weapons firms.
New internal financial data and emails between Amazon personnel and their Israeli corporate and governmental clients show that Amazon has consistently provided software to both Rafael and IAI in 2024 and 2025 — periods during which Israel’s military was using their products to indiscriminately kill civilians and destroy civil infrastructure. Rafael purchased artificial intelligence technologies made available through Amazon Web Services, including the state-of-the-art large language model Claude, developed by AI startup Anthropic.
The materials reviewed by The Intercept also indicate Amazon sold cloud-computing services to Israel’s nuclear program and offices administering the West Bank, where Israeli military occupation, population displacement, and settlement construction is widely considered illegal under international law."
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/24/amazon-weapons-gaza-israel-rafael-iai/
"Doch müssen die Europäer endlich lernen, digital auf eigenen Beinen zu stehen. Der perfekte Zeitpunkt dafür wäre vor 20 Jahren gewesen. Der nächstbessere Zeitpunkt ist genau jetzt."
"Da beruhigt es ungemein, dass die Bundeswehr sich in einem akuten Anfall völliger geistiger Umnachtung erst kürzlich dazu entschieden hat, ihre In-House-Cloud mit tatkräftiger Unterstützung Googles zu bauen. Es sind offensichtlich alle verrückt geworden."
Siehe auch die Entscheidung vom 
@bsi (Bundesamt für Sicherheit (sic!) in der Informationstechnik) zur Kooperation mit google vom Februar 2025:
"Google Cloud und das BSI hatten im Februar eine Vereinbarung unterzeichnet. Ziel sei es, die Entwicklung und Bereitstellung sicherer Cloud-Lösungen für Behörden auf Bundes-, Landes- und Kommunalebene zu unterstützen. „Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt der Vereinbarung liegt auf der Gewährung der Datensouveränität“, hieß es damals in einer Mitteilung." https://taz.de/IT-Sicherheitsbehoerde-warnt/!6106755/
The detailed #AWS incident Is report out: how a race condition between 2 DNS record management systems led to a regional record being unset. Basically DNS records were removed. Read the report here
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Is this the when Ops pass the #AWS incident to Security? It sure may be!
> couple folks on reddit said while they were refreshing during the outage, they were briefly logged in as a whole different user
“AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright”
Does the Great Filter theory mention something about AWS or Azure?
#aws #entshitification
CVS pharmacies are down nationwide in the U.S.
Apparently, the server where the outage occurred is Amazon's oldest and largest.
This should be a wake-up call about how we connect to services.
Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45657345
Fallout from the AWS Outage: Smart Mattresses Go Rogue and Ruin Sleep Worldwide
Link: https://quasa.io/media/the-strangest-fallout-from-the-aws-outage-smart-mattresses-go-rogue-and-ruin-sleep-worldwide
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45658056
A funny case study of the 21st century “software engineering” at its best.
As result of #AWS failure, a number of commercial products stopped working that relied on AWS hosted services. Such as the Eight Sleep Pod beds.
Yes, physical beds for sleeping relied on AWS to work. And it was not some kind of extremely sophisticated “AI” processing, but simple schedule “make warmer”, “make colder”, “raise/lower” etc. All that was controlled through AWS.
When AWS stopped working users started complaining that their beds got stuck in weird positions and users were unable to control them. So yes, a bed say in Netherlands stopped working because it could not retrieve instructions from US server which were sent there by the person physically present on said bed.
And the bonus: each bed sent 20 GB of telemetry data to AWS each month.
Source: https://x.com/zimm3rmann/status/1980491408948572167 (on Twitter, sorry)
Oh the timing … #AWS from last week. Wow.
https://archive.is/b6aUD original https://blog.stackademic.com/aws-just-fired-40-of-its-devops-team-then-let-ai-take-their-jobs-d9db9d298bfa
„Leaked internal tools show how Amazon’s cloud is now self-healing, self-scaling, and self-negotiating — no humans required.“
I would like to see some primary sources confirm this, or at least corroborate.
Way too many bytes in one basket makes for one very big single point of failure. This is the cost of an absurdly hyper-centralised fast-food-like data center culture.
Signal++ down, sucks, but it's seeing fundamentals like banks & public sector services break that stings most.
But hey, maybe this is what it tales to push more govs to actual #datasovereignty, investing in locally owned data centers or building out their team & hosting on-prem
AWSの障害だけど、わりと深刻な様子。DNSを理解して適切に扱える人は本当に少なくなったし、AWS規模のシステムを支えるとなると北米リージョンがコケただけに済まない問題になりそう #amazon #aws
本日、Amazonの頭脳流出が遂にAWSを崩壊へと導いた • The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/
It’s only an “#AWS outage” if it happens in the eu-*-* regions. Otherwise it’s a “sparkling #DigitalSovereignty stress test”.
Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout
Link: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45649178
Monopolies are single points of failure.
I'm hearing reports that the pre-meeting memo for the ongoing incident at #AWS is just pages from the Necronomicon, can anyone confirm?
Oh nice they found him
AWS outage shows internet users 'at mercy' of too few providers, experts say
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/20/amazon-web-services-aws-outage-hits-dozens-websites-apps
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45646649
Die meisten von den Diensten, die ausgefallen sind, kenne ich noch nicht mal vom Namen her. #AWS
I wasn't planning on shamelessly self-promoting the book draft I’m working on in my spare time, but the #AWS outage gave me no choice. The opportunity simply presented itself :)
P.S. drop your email here, so I can get back to you, if this thing ever sees the light of day: https://tally.so/r/w5y00v (or react to this post)
If you're wondering what AWS is, it's kinda like the operating system of the corporate Internet.
I call it bezOS.
This would be a good time to ask Amazon how much of their stuff is vibe coded.
AWS Outage: A Single Cloud Region Shouldn't Take Down the World. But It Did
Link: https://faun.dev/c/news/devopslinks/aws-outage-a-single-cloud-region-shouldnt-take-down-the-world-but-it-did/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45642951
Heute Morgen ging plötzlich bei vielen Nutzern gar nichts mehr: Eine massive AWS-Störung legte zahlreiche populäre Internet-Dienste lahm. 🌐 Das Problem trat in der AWS-Region "US-EAST-1" in North Virginia auf und wirkte sich global aus.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10778963?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon
#AWS #CloudComputing #Internetstörung #AmazonWebServices #Serverausfall
The internet was initially designed to be fault tolerant and resilient. Even if one route was down, a package should be able to find another way to it's destination, that's what it was designed for. And it worked, because the internet is decentral.
With the advent of the cloud, everything should have become even more reliable. No more outages, because it's in the the cloud and cloud is always better than on prem.
Well, this morning I figured out that some of our communication platforms were not working as expected. Also some other SAAS solutions we are using had issues. And now it turns out that there is a global outage of AWS.
Can it really be a good option, when everything in the world relies on a handful of central cloud service providers? I doubt it...
But this gives us a first taste of what happens, when we only rely on a few central providers or providers all based in one country.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Amazon-Web-Services-Global-Outage-10779040.html
There is no single central #Signal server. Signal uses #AWS cloud, plus Google Cloud, Microsoft Cloud and Cloudflare, all under US legislation. If any of these clouds goes down or becomes otherwise problematic, chatting degrades or fails.
With #deltachat you can choose #chatmail relays ( https://chatmail.at/relays ) which distributes the risk across a wider network. We are currently working on the multi-transport feature to finally remove any central point of chat failure https://chaos.social/@delta/115362144863345662
Meanwhile, because Mastodon server admins are all cheapskates and we're not going to pay the sort of prices for hosting that AWS charge, the Fediverse keeps on chugging away happily while the corporate internet falls apart.
Anyone else having problems with the #Zotero sync? Is this linked to the #AWS outage?
Edit: just found out that Zotero indeed relies on the #Amazon cloud! Whyyyy
Source: https://www.zotero.org/support/security
If you choose to sync your data with the Zotero servers, all data is encrypted in transit with current best practices (Zotero's API endpoint receives an A+ score on the well-respected SSL Labs test) and stored within the Amazon cloud, where access is tightly restricted to the small number of Zotero staff members who need access to maintain the service. Data in newly created accounts is also encrypted at rest using AES-256. All data is currently stored in the us-east-1 AWS region in the United States.
🚨 Another massive AWS outage just took down Roblox, Fortnite, Coinbase, Snapchat, and all Supercell games.
Half the internet has gone dark because of one Big Tech company. This is not innovation, it is monopoly risk.
💡It’s time to choose alternatives.
The day the world stood still.
Because the world keeps putting all service eggs into the same infrastructure provider basket. 🤡
Line go up! 
To be fair, AWS tells you that you shouldn't rely on a single region.
But yeah, half of the internet shouldn't rely on AWS neither.
Interesting how some say the #aws outage is affecting a large chunk of Mastodon. Well, some of us don't use that single big instance, so no issues here. #us-east-1 #hostyourown #petsnotcattle
Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
Link: https://www.theverge.com/news/802486/aws-outage-alexa-fortnite-snapchat-offline
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45641143
Ich wäre jetzt gerne Mäuschen in all den Unternehmen, wo die cholerischen Chefs wegen des #AWS-US-EAST-1-DOWN Ausfalls frei drehen und ihre MitarbeiterINnen anschreien:
"WEN MUSS ICH BEI AMAZON ANRUFEN, DASS SIE UNSERE SERVER WIEDER AUFDREHEN!!!!!".
We should abandon #DNS and just memorise IP addresses, as we did in ye olden days!1!!
In meinem Umfeld findet sich derzeit alles von "nicht betroffen", "ein paar nicht-kritische Systeme sind down" bis hin zu "wir können uns nicht anmelden".
Fun times. #AWS-US-EAST-1-DOWN
Da woll'n wir mal #AWS wieder hochfahren. #LostPlace
Maybe convincing friends and family to use #Signal and therefore #AWS for communication wasn’t the smartest move.
What's your favourite #decentralized alternative?
@signalappSignal ... is there something you want to tell us about your use of #AWS?
I'd kind of assumed you wouldn't be using that?
Why nobody is doing #AWS Cross-Region failover:
For Cross-Region Replication (CRR) and Same-Region Replication (SRR), you pay the S3 charges for storage in the selected destination S3 storage classes, for the primary copy, for replication PUT requests, and for applicable infrequent access storage retrieval charges. For CRR, you also pay for inter-region Data Transfer OUT from S3 to each destination region.
https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1
Link: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?ts=20251020
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640838
This morning, this is extremely appropriate (even if I yell at cloud when it's working, too)
#AWS #AWSDown #AWSOutage #IT #SysAdmin #OwnYourData #Decentralize
Gruk, for Signal:
Error: error loading manager. Try again later or run with --relink to force relink: libsignal-service error: HTTP reqwest error: error sending request for url (https://chat.signal.org/v2/keys?identity=ACI)
In fact, it's not responding.