The cloud is just someone else’s computer. Sometimes that computer gets hit by a drone
So a couple months ago a military drone blew up the AWS data centre where my customer’s platform runs. The platform serves millions of users across seven countries. I had to spend about a week moving everything from Bahrain to Europe. By hand. Because every single automated migration tool was also broken. Because, you know, […] The post The cloud is just someone else’s computer. Sometimes that…
In recent months, a military drone attack on an AWS data center in Bahrain led to significant disruptions for a software consultancy serving millions of users across seven countries. The attack, which targeted multiple AWS facilities in the UAE and Bahrain, resulted in a week of manual migration efforts and lost automated migration tools.
This incident, along with other attacks by Iranian and Russian drones, has become a recurring global pattern. Despite the usual focus on natural disasters, drone strikes on cloud infrastructure have become a reality. The author, who runs a tech consultancy, has witnessed colleagues affected by war, with one colleague even having to evacuate Ukraine with his family.
The author's team now faces the challenge of working in a region where drone defense specialists from Ukraine are deployed to protect against drone threats, including those targeting their customer's cloud infrastructure.
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