Iranian strikes on Amazon data centers highlight industry's vulnerability
rurp
30 points
6 comments
March 24, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
juliusceasar
Israel and USA provoked the destruction of so many people, just like Russia. Purest for of evil, nothing can be done against such an evil force.
BatFastard
Seems like a great opportunity for the "Boring Co" to start specializing in digging underground bunkers for data centers. You KNOW our AI Overlords are going to want it!
kevincloudsec
cloud providers design for software failures and network partitions. they do not design for drone strikes. the redundancy model assumes your availability zones won't get hit by the same military operation.
ChrisArchitect
March 3rd post OP; Related discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47209781