That's what I'm trying to understand too. It's this a meteor,tree,etc? Or a human made object,and if so accidental or intentional one. Further risk assessment would be dependent on root cause.
The earliest phrasing I saw internally was "Root cause is identified as a drone attack to DXB61 site". That's somewhat open to interpretation, and could also have simply been incorrect. It was scrubbed from the ticket, though, and it now merely vaguely gestures toward a "power event". The ticket I'd expect to have further detail was locked down.
I actually like the way they said it. I don't know if it's a different cultural tradition, but the cool steely-eyed fact-based conversation always really felt so much more inspiring:
Conrad: I got three fuel cell lights, an AC bus light, a fuel cell disconnect, AC bus overload 1 and 2, Main Bus A and B out.
Aaron: Flight, EECOM. Try SCE to Aux.
Modern culture in the movies and whatnot is that someone should be yelling "Everything's failing. Give me something, Houston. All lights are on! MAYDAY MAYDAY!" and some sort of flavour commentary like that. But reading engineering updates that go like this feels like watching maximal professionalism under fire:
> At around 4:30 AM PST, one of our Availability Zones (mec1-az2) was impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire. The fire department shut off power to the facility and generators as they worked to put out the fire. We are still awaiting permission to turn the power back on, and once we have, we will ensure we restore power and connectivity safely. It will take several hours to restore connectivity to the impacted AZ. The other AZs in the region are functioning normally. Customers who were running their applications redundantly across the AZs are not impacted by this event. EC2 Instance launches will continue to be impaired in the impacted AZ. We recommend that customers continue to retry any failed API requests. If immediate recovery of an affected resource (EC2 Instance, EBS Volume, RDS DB Instance, etc.) is required, we recommend restoring from your most recent backup, by launching replacement resources in one of the unaffected zones, or an alternate AWS Region. We will provide an update by 12:30 PM PST, or sooner if we have additional information to share.
This has that same mechanical tone of an ice-cold captain dealing with a proximate situation providing exactly the information they know. No flavour commentary. Amazing. I fucking love it.
The actual Whitest Kids You Know Youtube channel has been reuploading old skits with the title changed and maybe a single word audio dub as direct criticisms of this administration's horseshit.
It's insane. Jokes written 20 years ago work better today.
It's been extremely on point and it's sad how much criticism from the mid 2000s which was dismisses as "Not supporting America" was actually 100% on point and still fully valid and correct and prescient and on point 20 years later because the same exact old assholes are still in power and calling the shots and finally allowed to go weapons free on the geopolitical agenda's they've held for decades.
People didn't listen that the Bush Jr admin, who started middle east wars under fabricated pretenses and booted up the surveillance regime with the PATRIOT act and called war protests "Anti-american", was Fascist and they still aren't listening as a racist, sexist, rapist moron drives the US off the deep end and starts even more illegal and false wars and directs that same DHS Bush created to destroy the enemies of the state within.
God forbid we'd ever say that it was struck by a missile or a munition in an act of war.