▲ 231 ▼ Iran struck Amazon data centers again amid widening war, satellites show (arstechnica.com) submitted 1 month ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/globalnews@lemmy.zip 27 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] dregan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (3 children) What kind of dumbass builds a data center in the middle east? permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Pyro@programming.dev 21 points 1 month ago Literally every cloud company permalink fedilink source parent [–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 18 points 1 month ago A company that has operations in the Middle East. Proximity matters quite a bit when networking at scale. Networking across Tier 1/2 carriers gets expensive quickly, and is hard to justify when you can put the datacenter closer to the customers. permalink fedilink source parent [–] mrdown@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago Well the gulf countries was stable until the idiot and war criminal trump started this illegal war permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Pyro@programming.dev 21 points 1 month ago Literally every cloud company permalink fedilink source parent
[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 18 points 1 month ago A company that has operations in the Middle East. Proximity matters quite a bit when networking at scale. Networking across Tier 1/2 carriers gets expensive quickly, and is hard to justify when you can put the datacenter closer to the customers. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago Well the gulf countries was stable until the idiot and war criminal trump started this illegal war permalink fedilink source parent