Iran's attacks on Amazon data centers in UAE, Bahrain signal a new kind of war

whackernews

A new kind of war where people won’t be able to get next day delivery on the 5m USB-C cable that they ordered.

paxys

> The tech industry often talks about “the cloud” as though it were something abstract and untouchable. But the cloud runs on data centers, those data centers have an address, and that address can be hit by a drone. Nominating this as the best opening line I have read in a while.

prepend

Isn’t this just Iran trying to hit anything “of value” and it really a strategic target? I doubt they are thinking things through vs just firing off semi randomly.

paxys

Striking public infrastructure is the oldest kind of war there is. The article does raise an important question though - would an AWS data center be considered a civilian target or military?

trhway

Buying an antidrone and even antimissile system like say Pantsir-S1, Skyranger 30 or similar is just few million dollars - peanuts compare to the cost of the datacenter to be protected. Once AMAZN starts doing it for themselves, they will possibly also start air-defense-as-a-service using spare capacity. With all the money and assets and the whole value of business, the Big Tech has already started to move into energy, and i think the defense, starting with self-defense, will be among the nearest-future next domains they will move into.

YVoyiatzis

WTF are Amazon’s data centers doung in the UAE? Excuse my ignorance, but why there?