▲ 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
[–] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 month ago (5 children) Just a reminder 2/3 of the internet runs on AWS permalink fedilink source hideshow 10 child comments replies: [–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (1 child) ... Which you would think would be enough of a monopoly to break a company apart. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago Nah it's really not that bad If the company also controlled a significant portion of commerce, had its own distribution and warehouses, and maybe had an entertainment and media division too, then it might be a problem. permalink fedilink source parent [–] shweddy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago No one told the dumbasses to put all their eggs in one basket permalink fedilink source parent [–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz [S] 10 points 1 month ago Nothing to worry about here! permalink fedilink source parent [–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 6 points 1 month ago (1 child) Just a reminder that aws has military contracts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] noxypaws@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago AWS has at least two entire regions that are airgapped, exist within US military bases, are mostly airgapped, and require anyone working in or with them to have TS/SCI security clearances, to the point where AWS will facilitate (and award salary bumps for) employees getting those clearances. permalink fedilink source parent [–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago* Yes, but they're not evenly distributed across regions. You could take out every non-US and non-EU AWS region, and most of the top-500 traffic AWS sites would still be up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (1 child) ... Which you would think would be enough of a monopoly to break a company apart. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago Nah it's really not that bad If the company also controlled a significant portion of commerce, had its own distribution and warehouses, and maybe had an entertainment and media division too, then it might be a problem. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago Nah it's really not that bad If the company also controlled a significant portion of commerce, had its own distribution and warehouses, and maybe had an entertainment and media division too, then it might be a problem. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] shweddy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago No one told the dumbasses to put all their eggs in one basket permalink fedilink source parent
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz [S] 10 points 1 month ago Nothing to worry about here! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 6 points 1 month ago (1 child) Just a reminder that aws has military contracts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] noxypaws@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago AWS has at least two entire regions that are airgapped, exist within US military bases, are mostly airgapped, and require anyone working in or with them to have TS/SCI security clearances, to the point where AWS will facilitate (and award salary bumps for) employees getting those clearances. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago AWS has at least two entire regions that are airgapped, exist within US military bases, are mostly airgapped, and require anyone working in or with them to have TS/SCI security clearances, to the point where AWS will facilitate (and award salary bumps for) employees getting those clearances. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago* Yes, but they're not evenly distributed across regions. You could take out every non-US and non-EU AWS region, and most of the top-500 traffic AWS sites would still be up. permalink fedilink source parent