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Ask HN: Would the cloud survive a US Civil war?
4 by throwaway6532 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I'm not from the US, and the question isn't intended to spark any kind of flamewar, but I'm simply trying to game out a scenario of what might happen and HN is the only community with enough insider knowledge to give a reasonable answer on this. So I was wondering, say there were a civil war in the US sometime in the future (I certainly hope not, but just entertain the hypothetical), what would the impact be on cloud computing and what flow on effects might that have on the global economy? The reason this keeps me up at night lately is when AWS sneezes the whole internet catches a cold. Aren't there some global services hosted out of US-EAST-1? Developers can work remotely, so that's fine, but what if there was enough civil unrest that the people who maintain the physical infrastructure couldn't perform the upkeep necessary to keep that particular datacenter online? Am I imagining things or is there a possible systemic risk of a months long outage of AWS under such circumstances that would grind large portions of global commerce to a halt? Or am I just paranoid?