This week I have received a data breach notification from a company I never heard of but they lost my SSN, medical records and address and a few other things. Oh and they gave me a year of free credit monitoring (already frozen years ago). Thanks, I guess? This after my former employer Ingram Micro took 7 months to inform me of the same just recently. A company that had national security agreements to protect data. The irony is thick.

"We recommend customers exercise their disaster recovery plans, recover from remote backups stored in other regions” is something that I thought I’d not have to take in from a hyperscaler. The biggest of them all... This might have been Iran’s most successful attack to date in terms of financial damage. It may cost Amazon a whole region rebuild (if they deem it worth) in the high hundreds of millions of USD.

Turns out your little cloud is fragile when there’s hostiles coming after your server. First time in a military conflict a data center was targeted and offlined COMPLETELY including one ADDITIONAL availability zone. Reminder: 2 of 3 AZs down is baaaad. Amazon is telling customers to move to other regions, even. This is very instructive. Amazon's AWS reports outage after UAE data center struck by 'objects' - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amazon-cloud-unit-flags-issues-bahrain-uae-data-centers-amid-iran-strikes-2026-03-02/

The US Ambassador to France, his excellency Charles Kushner, is no longer permitted contact with members of his host country after failing to present after being summoned (two times). US ambassador to France banned from meeting French government - https://www.reuters.com/world/us-ambassador-france-banned-meeting-french-government-2026-02-23/ Also: Kushner hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, arranging to record a sexual encounter between the two and send the tape to his sister. He was sentenced to two years in prison and served 14 months at Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery

RE: https://mastodon.social/@thelocalstack/116099561686307777Shocking insight into how AI is profiling your mental state and how you are becoming a target.