Comment by agubelu

Comment by agubelu 18 hours ago

5 replies

That would be as close to a declaration of war as you can get without firing a bullet.

The immediate and obvious response would be for the foreign branches of those companies to be declared "of national interest", nationalized and forced to keep operating.

FpUser 17 hours ago

>"nationalized and forced to keep operating."

Assuming there is no some kill switch which would render a whole infra including hardware inoperable.

  • gopher_space 14 hours ago

    I'd imagine the government would be in talks with the highest ranking local Amazon employees long before, but I can't imagine a country trusting the hardware or wanting to manage the jank.

  • martijnvds 17 hours ago

    It's called us-east-1?

    • solatic 15 hours ago

      AWS China is a completely separate partition under separate Chinese management, with no dependencies on us-east-1. It also greatly lags in feature deployments as a result.

  • hdgvhicv 14 hours ago

    We saw the damage crowdstrike caused in a few hours