As the effect of yesterday's AWS event demonstrates, the major Amazon, Microsoft, and Google data centers are surely top tier targets in every adversary's war plans.
The decentralized internet is less of a reality today than it was years ago.
The decentralized internet is less of a reality today than it was years ago.
The web though I agree isn't very decentralized.
An attacker (read: nation-state actor) wouldn't even need to take down US-East-1, it could just take advantage of the outage.
I assume (hope?) there's some kind of backup comms plan or infra in place for critical events, but I don't actually know.