@alansuspect

Wow, what a story, an AWS (Amazon Web Services) story…
Catch22 has nothing on them!
Good luck activating the “ah, support, situation”! 🤞 If you don’t report back in a reasonable time, we’ll send your clothes… 😁 (joke)

#Amazon #AWS #Catch22 #humour #support #weird

In the ongoing bizarreness that is #aws I closed my account, because why not. They then charge me for WAF, which I don't remember setting up. Or even know what that is.

I try to log into my account and get a blank warning box, I assume because I tried to close it.

So in the email I click the billing link and hey! I can get it, not so closed then?

I'm being charged daily for WAF, so I click on WAF to see what it is - get a "you closed your account" message. Thanks Amazon.

I'm now in a very strange limbo where my closed account is being charged daily for a service I have no idea about, I can't cancel, and can't access.

Time to face the ah, support, situation.

In the ongoing bizarreness that is #aws I closed my account, because why not. They then charge me for WAF, which I don't remember setting up. Or even know what that is.

I try to log into my account and get a blank warning box, I assume because I tried to close it.

So in the email I click the billing link and hey! I can get it, not so closed then?

I'm being charged daily for WAF, so I click on WAF to see what it is - get a "you closed your account" message. Thanks Amazon.

I'm now in a very strange limbo where my closed account is being charged daily for a service I have no idea about, I can't cancel, and can't access.

Time to face the ah, support, situation.

Amazon's cloud unit reports fire after objects hit UAE data center | Reuters

March 1 (Reuters) - Amazon's (AMZN.O) cloud unit, AWS, said on Sunday that power to its data center in the United Arab Emirates was shut down temporarily after objects struck the facility, triggering sparks and a fire.

The UAE is reeling from Iran's retaliatory missile and drone strikes following U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran.

#UAE #Iran #USA #Israel #war #AWS

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amazons-cloud-unit-reports-fire-after-objects-hit-uae-data-center-2026-03-01/

Amazon's cloud unit reports fire after objects hit UAE data center | Reuters

March 1 (Reuters) - Amazon's (AMZN.O) cloud unit, AWS, said on Sunday that power to its data center in the United Arab Emirates was shut down temporarily after objects struck the facility, triggering sparks and a fire.

The UAE is reeling from Iran's retaliatory missile and drone strikes following U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran.

#UAE #Iran #USA #Israel #war #AWS

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amazons-cloud-unit-reports-fire-after-objects-hit-uae-data-center-2026-03-01/

Oops! Looks like "the cloud" is vulnerable to missile damage.

https://health.aws.com/health/status

#aws #war #uae #iran

Reduced one of my clients' AWS bills by $1,300/month. That's over $15k no longer going into Jeff Bezos' pocket every year!

I'd love to help more companies and organizations with this. If you know anyone that could benefit, feel free to pass my contact info along to them.

#aws #webdev #amazon

Oops! Looks like "the cloud" is vulnerable to missile damage.

https://health.aws.com/health/status

#aws #war #uae #iran

Incase you missed it, an Amazon AWS datacenter in the UAE is still partially offline right now due to suffering a drone strike early on Sunday the first.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amazons-cloud-unit-reports-fire-after-objects-hit-uae-data-center-2026-03-01/

#Amazon #AWS #Iran #KhameneiAssassination

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amazons-cloud-unit-reports-fire-after-objects-hit-uae-data-center-2026-03-01/

#iran #israel #aws

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amazons-cloud-unit-reports-fire-after-objects-hit-uae-data-center-2026-03-01/

#iran #israel #aws

Vorige week voor het eerst zitten klussen met Stackit, a.k.a. de Lidl Cloud. Het optuigen van een Kubernetes cluster incl virtual servers, public IP en wat user accounts is schrikbarend makkelijk vergeleken met AWS of Azure. En omdat het niet hoeft te draaien als ik er niet mee bezig ben, kan de hele zwik in hibernation worden gezet zodat het niets kost.

#aws #azure #lidl #stackit #digitalsovereignty #soeverein #cloud #devops

Reduced one of my clients' AWS bills by $1,300/month. That's over $15k no longer going into Jeff Bezos' pocket every year!

I'd love to help more companies and organizations with this. If you know anyone that could benefit, feel free to pass my contact info along to them.

#aws #webdev #amazon

Use the word "peatslide" in a sentence, LOL.

"Since the peatslide, AWS has remained quiet about its involvement, but in the run-up to the construction work the company was in full green PR mode, advertising the agreement as a historic breakthrough for both its ambition to run a service powered completely by renewables by 2030 and for contributing to Irish green-energy infrastructure without costing the taxpayer a penny. "

#unintendedconsequences #sustainability #esg #aws #wind #ireland

Use the word "peatslide" in a sentence, LOL.

"Since the peatslide, AWS has remained quiet about its involvement, but in the run-up to the construction work the company was in full green PR mode, advertising the agreement as a historic breakthrough for both its ambition to run a service powered completely by renewables by 2030 and for contributing to Irish green-energy infrastructure without costing the taxpayer a penny. "

#unintendedconsequences #sustainability #esg #aws #wind #ireland

Hey @EUCommission, is it normal that I have to execute #JavaScript from an #AWS #WAF server in order to consult the official publications of #EUlaw applicable to me?

Is this part of this #DigitalSovereignty thing I hear so much about? 🤔