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An interesting context here is that this happens coupled with the destruction of a big Wildberries store near Moscow yesterday. Wildberries is the Amazon's Russian counterpart.

> An interesting context here is that this happens coupled with the destruction of a big Wildberries store near Moscow yesterday.

Amazon data centers were already being attacked by terrorist groups(i.e. the IRGC) before the Wildberries strikes.[0]

[0] https://apnews.com/article/amazon-aws-data-center-uae-iran-b...

Yep. The status has changed from 'untouchable' to 'could be next'. And it was almost too easy to destroy it so I bet that the protester action has been another startle more in a complicated week. Once the cat is out the bag you can't put it again.

I learnt that this companies will not pay for any of the borrowed items destroyed. A lot of sellers in UAE and Russia lost a lot of money this year.

> The status has changed from 'untouchable' to 'could be next'.

The threats in the middle east against international shipping and regional energy infrastructure seem to have a similar threat profile to data centers and commercial warehouses. There are lots of large high value targets in the region that are hard to defend reliably against missiles/drone attacks.

One of the big problems in dealing with those threats is that terrorist groups like the IRGC or Hamas can be very hard to deter in general.

> I bet that the protester action has been another startle more in a complicated week.

These sort of common and usually ineffective detached from reality protests are nothing all that new and are quite different from real military threats to infrastructure.

> A lot of sellers in UAE and Russia lost a lot of money this year.

Were UAE distribution warehouses hit as well or just data centers?

Hum, I don't know really. We don't even know how many US soldiers died to date. The data centers for sure.

> We don't even know how many US soldiers died to date.

It's 17[0] so far since the start of the war.

[0] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-strikes-iran-over-tro...

Is Jeff Bezos also somehow on Epstein list to be blackmailed to do such evil things or is he a natural evil?

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