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Any chance this is causing the claude issues directly/indirectly?

by butler14 7mo ago

LAC-Tech 7mo ago
Why would they funnel all their traffic to a middle eastern AZ?
- DavidSJ 7mo ago
  Capacity is tight, you serve from where you can.
  - aurareturn 7mo ago
    Probably also because most token use cases are not latency sensitive. A 200ms extra delay isn't going to change much for most use cases.
    - anamexis 7mo ago
      Right, so if they were able to get a discount in UAE…
joe_mamba 7mo ago
> U.S. Military Using Anthropic for Middle East Airstrikes[1] > Strikes hit AWS datacenter > Antropic aided strikes causes Anthropic outage lol [1] https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-strikes-2026/card/u-s-strikes-in-middle-east-use-anthropic-hours-after-trump-ban-ozNO0iClZpfpL7K7ElJ2 https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-strikes-2026/card/u-s-...
- tamirzb 7mo ago
  This comment makes it seem as if it's the US who striked the Amazon data center.
  - temp0826 7mo ago
    The US lost 3 of its own fighter jets yesterday due to friendly fire[0], is it out of the realm of possibility? [0] https://newrepublic.com/post/207197/us-shoots-three-fighter-jets-kuwait-iran-war https://newrepublic.com/post/207197/us-shoots-three-fighter-...
    - joe_mamba 7mo ago
      US tax dollars blowing up US tax dollars. Lockheed Martin and Boeing stonks go up.
      - astrange 7mo ago
        Generally speaking defense contractors do not make more money during wars, because we start asking them to make low-margin realistic stuff, whereas in peace time we get bored and start paying them to design imaginary superweapons. But we also usually don't blow up our own planes I suppose.
        joe_mamba 7mo ago
        >Generally speaking defense contractors do not make more money during wars US economy is not in war mode right now in order to ask its contractors to make cheap stuff.
- BlobberSnobber 7mo ago
  It wasn't the US attacking the UAE, just FYI.
wongarsu 7mo ago
I find it more likely that Anthropic has rented space in other data centers in the region that were also impacted by Iranian retaliation
lyu07282 7mo ago
Most people assume its because of the influx in chatgpt users switching to claude. 295% daily uninstall hike of ChatGPT: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/chatgpt-uninstalls-surged-by-295-after-dod-deal/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/chatgpt-uninstalls-surged-...

Any chance this is causing the claude issues directly/indirectly?

LAC-Tech 7mo ago

Why would they funnel all their traffic to a middle eastern AZ?

DavidSJ 7mo ago
Capacity is tight, you serve from where you can.
- aurareturn 7mo ago
  Probably also because most token use cases are not latency sensitive. A 200ms extra delay isn't going to change much for most use cases.
  - anamexis 7mo ago
    Right, so if they were able to get a discount in UAE…

joe_mamba 7mo ago

> U.S. Military Using Anthropic for Middle East Airstrikes[1] > Strikes hit AWS datacenter > Antropic aided strikes causes Anthropic outage lol [1] https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-strikes-2026/card/u-s-strikes-in-middle-east-use-anthropic-hours-after-trump-ban-ozNO0iClZpfpL7K7ElJ2 https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-strikes-2026/card/u-s-...

tamirzb 7mo ago
This comment makes it seem as if it's the US who striked the Amazon data center.
- temp0826 7mo ago
  The US lost 3 of its own fighter jets yesterday due to friendly fire[0], is it out of the realm of possibility? [0] https://newrepublic.com/post/207197/us-shoots-three-fighter-jets-kuwait-iran-war https://newrepublic.com/post/207197/us-shoots-three-fighter-...
  - joe_mamba 7mo ago
    US tax dollars blowing up US tax dollars. Lockheed Martin and Boeing stonks go up.
    - astrange 7mo ago
      Generally speaking defense contractors do not make more money during wars, because we start asking them to make low-margin realistic stuff, whereas in peace time we get bored and start paying them to design imaginary superweapons. But we also usually don't blow up our own planes I suppose.
      - joe_mamba 7mo ago
        >Generally speaking defense contractors do not make more money during wars US economy is not in war mode right now in order to ask its contractors to make cheap stuff.
BlobberSnobber 7mo ago
It wasn't the US attacking the UAE, just FYI.

wongarsu 7mo ago

I find it more likely that Anthropic has rented space in other data centers in the region that were also impacted by Iranian retaliation

lyu07282 7mo ago

Most people assume its because of the influx in chatgpt users switching to claude. 295% daily uninstall hike of ChatGPT: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/chatgpt-uninstalls-surged-by-295-after-dod-deal/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/chatgpt-uninstalls-surged-...