Comment by agubelu
17 hours ago
That would be as close to a declaration of war as you can get without firing a bullet.
The immediate and obvious response would be for the foreign branches of those companies to be declared "of national interest", nationalized and forced to keep operating.
>"nationalized and forced to keep operating."
Assuming there is no some kill switch which would render a whole infra including hardware inoperable.
I'd imagine the government would be in talks with the highest ranking local Amazon employees long before, but I can't imagine a country trusting the hardware or wanting to manage the jank.
It's called us-east-1?
AWS China is a completely separate partition under separate Chinese management, with no dependencies on us-east-1. It also greatly lags in feature deployments as a result.
We saw the damage crowdstrike caused in a few hours