On: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

[XorNot]

I'm real curious how much of AWS GovCloud has continued through this actually. But even if it's fine, from a strategic perspective how much damage did we just discover you could do with a targeted disruption at the right time?

[Asparagirl → XorNot]

The US federal government is in yet another shutdown right now, so how would some sub-agency even know if there were an unplanned outage, who would report it, and who would try to fix it?

[standardly → Asparagirl]

Gov't IT is mostly contractors, and IME they do 99% of the work, so... That might be your answer.