Comment by lyu07282

6 hours ago

More recent news: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-data-centers-middle-e...

> Two facilities in the United Arab Emirates sustained direct hits, while a third facility in Bahrain was damaged by a drone strike "in close proximity,"

Also to add context: AWS has contracts with the US military: "The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract enables AWS to continue providing Department of Defense (DoD) customers with secure, reliable, and mission-critical cloud services." https://aws.amazon.com/federal/defense/jwcc/ Making them a target for retaliation ofc.

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WJW  6 hours ago

Amazon is an extremely visible American company, hitting their assets carries a symbolic meaning even if the DoD wouldn't have anything running on that datacentre at all. Iran's trying to transmit a message of "we can destroy your stuff too", trying to impact the general US feeling of invulnerability.

I don't think it'll work, but they might as well try I guess.

  • bayindirh  6 hours ago

    > I don't think it'll work, but they might as well try I guess.

    Consider this from the eyes of the people living there. Your world is peaceful one day and burning tomorrow. It doesn't have to be "burning like hell", but something came from the sky, entered your building, exploded and damaged some stuff to the extent that fire-supression triggered and damaged more things.

    Even if it's not a trauma, it's a shock. Something you'll be remembering for a long time. We live in fragile bubbles, but don't know it until we experience it pop. While this might not make them "win" the war, it'll leave a mark and make the affected persons' ears perch up to understand what's happening better.

    Please note, I'm not from either side. I'm a close observer because of where I live, and still believe that this should have not happened.

  • randunel  6 hours ago

    > trying to impact the general US feeling of invulnerability

    Or, perhaps, trying to defend themselves? They are being attacked, after all.

    • dotancohen  6 hours ago

      That's why they've been hitting residential buildings and hotels as well? They assume that because their proxies (Hamas, Hezbollah) hide in civilian structures, so does the US army?

      All these attempts to justify Iranian terror demonstrate just how deep Qatari influence online has been. And even Qatar is being attacked by Iran now.

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    • nixon_why69  6 hours ago

      It's both, this particular counter-attack is aimed at morale rather than specifically a base launching sorties against them.

      Ultimately, this war ends when America loses the political will to continue, so morale is a strategic objective for them.

    • avereveard  6 hours ago

      they have been engaging in hybrid warfare for decade+ they don't get to play victim this is the result of their continued proxy attacks

    • keybored  6 hours ago

      America is so unused to being attacked (counter-attacked) that this needs to be explained apparently.

    • tzahifadida  6 hours ago

      Defend themselves? LOL... Keep dreaming. Maybe they are continuing being delusional they can threaten a superpower without repercussions... I suggest getting a shrink working on that...

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  • eb0la  5 hours ago

    Not just Amazon - I guess the Oil and gas industry is now run on the cloud. They used to have big SGI machines 30 years ago... but I bet everything is on the cloud now using GPUs.

    • bayindirh  5 hours ago

      I tend to believe that they still have their own clusters. For speed and privacy reasons. You don't want to give away the location of the oil you have found.