# @initjean: Amazon S3 failing after losing second availability zone in AWS outage

Source: https://x.com/initjean/status/2028427577799401621?s=12

they lost a second availability zone and now Amazon S3 is failing

## Comments

**mishaderidder.eth**: I think they call it “objects struck” ;) https://xcancel.com/shanaka86/status/2028285885100523854

**timdaub.eth**: I wonder if the Claude outage right now is related, but probably not 

**mishaderidder.eth**: Not likely, but it’s curious, outage is worldwide. Can’t yet find anything. 

**mishaderidder.eth**: But my first thought was Claude is currently being used by US military in Iran despite the ban; it could be related maybe sabotage or a hack. Anyway I guess we will know soon. https://decrypt.co/359577/anthropics-ai-iran-strikes-trump-moved-to-cut-ties 


**timdaub.eth**: If I was the US military, if I had a super large job of intelligence to process I'd just shut down Claude for everyone else and take over the data center. Not sure if they're using it at this scale, but it would be kinda interesting

**timdaub.eth**: https://x.com/karankendre/status/2028491586838110496?s=46