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Can someone explain 100% of the comtext here, because I am completely lost. Im guessing AWS is a server? And that is a guy laying in the snow?
The picture is the main character from Blade Runner 2049, who is in love with a digital woman that he loses when the harddrive she lives on is destroyed.
AWS means Amazon Web Services, the main cloud infrastructure of the world afaik. It recently had an outage, possibly erasing people's AI partners.
In fairness to K, his pretend girlfriend is at least Ana de Armas, rather than some anime weeaboobs.
AWS server US-East 1 went down yesterday, causing a massive internet blackout. It was an internal oopsie, someone did something that caused a problem with DNS resolution. Basically, you go looking for something and the server was like "Uh...Oh, I should know this? Oh, shoot. Uh.... uh....I give up,I dunno."
The screencap is from the end of Blade Runner 2049, a movie about humans and "replicants" that are really good cyborgs. I won't spoil the movie for you, but it's a joke about AI in a context about AI kind of thing.