Putin spent years building a »sovereign Internet« to protect Russia from the outside world, then concentrated it into a few giant Yandex targets. Ukraine built redundancy; Russia built a shopping list for drone operators. Turns out centralized control is also a pretty good synonym for centralized failure.
Russia was not ready for this war. It thought so because it consumed its own propaganda and is all just yes-men
Ironic, given that DARPA originally envisaged the Internet specifically as a decentralized comms network which would be resilient against these kinds of strikes. But I suppose it's different in a dictatorship which needs central control.
You've never experienced an AWS US East outage, huh?
We owe Ukraine so much. I hope we will honor them better than we did with the Kurds who destroyed the IS for us.
Fantastic timing for the US midterms, and a great move!
Maybe that was what the disagreement between Zelensky and the Orange-in-Chief was really about? How was again the slogan, "Data is the new Oil", wasn't it?
So their "digital economy" is bot farms?
Always has been, that and hackers and criminals.
Russian companies like Yandex will also have a hard time establishing infrastructure backup systems outside of Russia to provide additional wartime resiliency. That is partly because of the “Sovereign Internet Law” passed by the Russian parliament and signed into law by President Vladimir Putin in 2019
Let's be honest: That law will be quickly repealed or not enforced.
Good thing for them IT infrastructure is so cheap and abundant right now!
American companies can offset some losses from all those data centers they've taken delivery off but, sitting offline right now, by selling to the russians.
Are there actually data centers that are fully equipped but inoperational?
Honestly it will be hard to do it anyway. Like buying a data centre worth of hardware costs a fortune and the market is mostly sold out anyway(thanks AI I guess). Sanctions do not help. If they go to a cloud they need the other site to know who they are. To transfer that amount of data we are talking about a plane full of hard drives or multiple. So Western IT companies are out. So they need one of the large Chinese IT companies to help them out and they will milk them for every cent. Those are the only ones with the data centres need to meet that kind of demand in short order.
If they do not make the transfer, then loosing that data will be a really hard loss. Imagine banking data being gone or similar.
That's assuming they even have off site backups to load on to a plane. AWS didn't when their Bahrain region got taken out, and I very much doubt that Yandex are better prepared.
Ukraine just started the data centre campaign. So they still have time to make those backups, if they do not have them.
FAFO I guess 🤷♂️
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