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Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted

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577 points mooreds | 2 comments | 18 Nov 24 14:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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zelon88 ◴[18 Nov 24 20:36 UTC] No.42176687[source]▶
It's just practice. Locate the cables, establish a means of damaging them, deploy the means as a test and a show of force.

The western economy is almost completely built using off-prem in Cloud PaaS environments. It should be pretty fun when WW3 starts and not a single hospital, school, laboratory, or factory can operate.

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1. sofixa ◴[18 Nov 24 22:22 UTC] No.42177750[source]▶
> The western economy is almost completely built using off-prem in Cloud PaaS environments

US and lesser extent UK. Companies in France, Germany, Spain, Italy are much less likely to use public cloud providers, especially for critical (customer data, critical for the business, etc.) services. Not that it doesn't exist, one of the premier health tech startups in Europe, Doctolib, is full AWS; but it's rarer and much less prevalent.

Source: I work in a US tech company and cover EMEA, and compare notes with American colleagues.

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2. inferiorhuman ◴[18 Nov 24 23:02 UTC] No.42178098[source]▶
Right but how much of that is cloud shit hosted on a different continent?