@wild1145

I don't think that there's actually a contradiction here between what they said earlier and later. The root cause is the missile strike, whereas the proximal cause was the fire department shutting off the power in response to the fire that that caused.

It's an interesting thing for a data centre customer to consider: In the event of a fire, gas leak, explosion, or some such, is the fire department going to, as S.O.P., shut off, without any grace period, *both* primary and backup power?

Because my reading of what #Amazon first wrote is that that is what the #UnitedArabEmirates fire department's response was: shut off all power, mains and backup generators, immediately.

Hence #HansGruber. (-:

It's not unreasonable of the fire department, but it's also salutary to remember that there are going to be cases, to DR plan for, where it is actually procedure to have an unclean shutdown of all machines at once.

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@0xabad1dea @HeNeArXn

The power generator was not taken out by any sort of impact, here, though. It was taken out by the fire department.

https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116155667315973528

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From the current status page (https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status):

'At around 4:30 AM PST, one of our Availability Zones (mec1-az2) was impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire. The fire department shut off power to the facility and generators as they worked to put out the fire. We are still awaiting permission to turn the power back on, […]'

As Hans Gruber would say: You asked for miracles, Theo. I give you the #UnitedArabEmirates fire department.

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