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Re:Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" ... by pvtmert on Friday April 03, 2026 @06:26PM (#47633161)
Agreed that Govt/Military runs on AWS/Azure/whatever. They care about "security" in a "virtual" sense, but I presume soon we'll see requirements like: "Must Have: Missile Defence Perimeter" next to the "Must be FIPS compliant".
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Re:Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" ... by dgxyz on Friday April 03, 2026 @06:34PM (#47633233)
My partner works in that space.

Sovereignty and self-sufficiency are big topics. The US centric cloud at least is killing itself through geopolitical risks for gov customers outside the US. Literally number one operational risk now.

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Re:Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" ... by mystraline on Friday April 03, 2026 @06:56PM (#47633407)
Yep. Look at my last comment. Its exactly how to mitigate risk related to the nation you're in, in a data sense.

The country opposing the country you're in won't extradite.

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