Why Iran targeted Amazon data centers

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Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591208

Iran's attacks on Amazon data centers in UAE, Bahrain signal a new kind of war

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317587

Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47209781

soft target, good publicity

You only think it's soft because nothing in your life relies on it. For the companies who were hosted there it was a pretty big deal.

Imagine the chaos that a strike on us-east-1 would cause. Failover management for all of AWS is centrally located in Virginia, redundancies would not activate.

A lot of commerce would come to a grinding halt. Many banks and credit exchanges would just stop working for weeks, to say nothing for the plethora of businesses who do not have redundant systems.

I think "soft target" means it doesn't have a lot of military defenses, not that it's unimportant.

Yeah, it'll be like Luigi Mangione. Nobody likes Bezos.

I like Bezos.

He’s proof micro management works.

It was a matter of time before Iran figured out actual annoyances to the US. Blowing up oil and gas facilities hurts the US the least. In fact energy disruption for the EU and China and weakening of the Gulf monarchies (which had pesky BRICS ambitions in the past) may be exactly what the US wants.

For maximum annoyance Iran should let through EU and Chinese tankers but block US and Israeli tankers. This would infuriate Trump to no end.

That would just render the blockade entirely pointless.

Prices are going up in the US because oil is a global market, not because that specific oil would actually have been delivered to the US.

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