Comment by nobodyandproud

14 hours ago

They had nine years and more money than god to build redundancy in an unstable region.

If it's an unstable region, then it might not result in a good return, especially since a blown up data center is 100% loss.

  • This is focusing in too close.

    Bezos has been working with Trump. The instability has been hugely exacerbated by Trump. The issue lies at home.

If they're region-locking data appropriately (i.e. for people to comply with domestic storage / gdpr-style requirements) they really can't. Bahrain is only about 300 square miles / 80k hectares.

They could, of course, open other regional data centers in other countries, or say "data in this geo zone may be in any of X, Y or Z" countries, but for the latter that pretty starkly limits some of the major customers they'd have, I would guess, and for the former, well, they have other geo zones already, so if people weren't replicating to them, I'm not sure why adding me-east-1 me-west-1 me-central-1 would fix that issue, they just wouldn't replicate there either.