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

> 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-bahrain-71066b0a822c4cfd88b61e3fe79af917 https://apnews.com/article/amazon-aws-data-center-uae-iran-b...

pvaldes 3mo ago
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.
- jameshilliard 3mo ago
  > 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?
  - pvaldes 3mo ago
    Hum, I don't know really. We don't even know how many US soldiers died to date. The data centers for sure.
    - jameshilliard 3mo ago
      > 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-troop-deaths-as-israel-warns-tehrans-attacks-are-coming-close https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-strikes-iran-over-tro...

pvaldes 3mo ago

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.

jameshilliard 3mo ago
> 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?
- pvaldes 3mo ago
  Hum, I don't know really. We don't even know how many US soldiers died to date. The data centers for sure.
  - jameshilliard 3mo ago
    > 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-troop-deaths-as-israel-warns-tehrans-attacks-are-coming-close https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-strikes-iran-over-tro...