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		speedgoose 40 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 The region labels found within the metadata are very very powerful. They make lawyers happy and they stop intelligence services to access the associated resources. For example, no one would even consider accessing data from a European region without the right paperwork.

speed_spread 40 days ago [–]

Because if they were caught they'd have to pay _thousands_ of dollars in fines and get sternly talked to be high ranking officials.

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