You see, the Iranians have declared that Google and Microsoft facilities are legitimate military targets.
Amazon, of course, has already been hit during the war, but I'm pretty sure that Jeff is feeling ignored right now.
Iran should send him a gift as an apology, and in true Amazon manner, they can deliver it by drone.
There’s a new target in 21st century warfare: US tech companies.
According to Al Jazeera, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps made the announcement following attacks on the country by US and Israeli military forces. In retaliation to a specific strike on an Iranian bank — which reportedly killed several civilian employees — Iranian military officials declared that they would now count US- and Israeli-linked financial and tech institutions among their targets.
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In a document viewed by Al Jazeera, the IRGC listed a number of US tech companies as “Iran’s new targets,” including Google, Microsoft, Palantir, IBM, Nvidia, and Oracle, as well as a cloud computing companies in Israel and several Gulf countries. .
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A sign that Iran’s not bluffing: the announcement comes after its drones inflicted “structural damage” on three Amazon Web Services facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Those strikes are believed to be the first instance of an adversary targeting US corporate tech facilities in an attack — a sign of the strange new battlefield as commercial tech infrastructure is now visibly embedded throughout the US military apparatus.
It should be noted that the strikes on the Amazon facilities took out much telecommunications capabilities in the region for hours.
It should also be noted that this vulnerability is an unavoidable feature of the cloud.
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