They’ve already done damage to a us company. Check out Stryker and the stock price. 2 days of no production worldwide.
Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I want this war to end as soon as possible, but is this a surprise?
They’re taking on hundreds of millions from the Pentagon, they are military contractors.
I do not think bombing data centers will result in more than sporadic regional service disruptions though. Data will just get routed through other regions and increase latency. That’s what the internet was invented for and AWS + Google run multi zone clouds.
It’s yet to be seen if Iranian hackers can deal any real damage to these companies.
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
I hadn’t heard about this
Lydia_K@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The reality is that these multi region “clouds” are not nearly as resilient as they seem, and applications that have built on top of then even less so.
njordomir@lemmy.world 27 minutes ago
Having worked in several large public clouds, I will always keep a local backup of my cloud data even if I am snapshotting it and even if I’m using geographic replication. Too easy for a misunderstanding or a bug to result in all my stuff getting deleted.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Everything runs on us-east-1 lol
Lydia_K@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
There are at least two services I know of off the top of my head that rely on us-east-1, so even if you are using them in another region if us-east-1 goes down, so does that service in all regions (and so does your app)
gdog05@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m far from an expert, but it seems like if one cloud node goes down, pay hackers to slam everything with bot traffic and the system is brought to its knees.
kablez@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Correct. Plus it may not be as resilient as we think. Just because they’re billion dollar companies doesn’t mean they don’t follow the tradition of building systems with duct tape and a prayer.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
In the age of MBA management, the removal of resilience such as fallback systems because “they’re doing nothing” is the norm.
Nowadays Engineering stuff isn’t done according to Engineering Principles if it conflicts with short term profit maximization.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Also even if the digital infrastructure is resilient, what about the physical infrastructure? A couple sticks of Nobels great invention and viola there’s now a gaping hole in your power transmission infrastructure or in the building itself if access can be achieved.