I want this war to end as soon as possible, but is this a surprise?

They’re taking on hundreds of millions from the Pentagon, they are military contractors.

I do not think bombing data centers will result in more than sporadic regional service disruptions though. Data will just get routed through other regions and increase latency. That’s what the internet was invented for and AWS + Google run multi zone clouds.

It’s yet to be seen if Iranian hackers can deal any real damage to these companies.

The reality is that these multi region “clouds” are not nearly as resilient as they seem, and applications that have built on top of then even less so.

Everything runs on us-east-1 lol

There are at least two services I know of off the top of my head that rely on us-east-1, so even if you are using them in another region if us-east-1 goes down, so does that service in all regions (and so does your app)

IAM and Route53?