This is devastating for Yandex. What does the SRE recovery plan even look like? “Raise shields”?
Pretty likely to happen if there is a major war or political upheaval to require the internet be cut in two. I didn't require the service had no downtime, but that it was reasonably possible to restore service within a few hours.
Things contributing to that are you should have either live data or a backup in similar geo location to the user. Both the data and the crypto keys. Same for the code. And you should build your service simple enough that someone else who has never seen it before can deploy it and get things at least mostly working. Things like terraform are good for that - and it dramatically reduces employee training too.
Netsplits were also a common feature of IRC that we had to work around quite often.
this is not true, war crimes exist and have legal definitions, even in WW2 people pushed back on some things their government decided to do, like firebombing large civilian centers
hospitals and water facilities are easy examples, which Israel is very guilty of violating in recent years
That is why total wars are distinguished from a normal war. The concept that "all civilian infrastructure supports the war effort" is used in a total war to justify firebombing civilians.
unless we're talking about, say, japan, where the firebombing campaigns killed more civilians than the two atomic bombs :P
WW2 is arguably bad example because everyone was committing crimes against humanity, worst thing humans ever did do, and today we're doing a lot of the same things that got us there
The parent said "public outcry saw this tactic end".
To my knowledge, it didn't end. That's why I asked for sources and explained how Dresden happened at the very end of the war, where they still employed the tactic, that OP said was ended because of public outcry.
proclaimed by who? Even the "international order" would disagree, as Yandex Cloud wasn't providing their services to any military companies per my knowledge.
Yandex Cloud was bombed symmetrically. Ukraine made no attempt in targeting MSK-IX, which could be a real military target.
1) or government organizations?
2) why would you have any knowledge of who Yandex's customers are?
Great plan.
And far more visible to anyone who happens to have a telescope pointed at that general section of the sky.
Yes, I get that aiming it is pretty hard, but we've hit far smaller targets.
Sure you cannot bribe anyone, actually have to pay taxes and can't install gas turbines but... they don't get blown up.
Lotsa oil, small population, hard to defend.
That's the lie that the US and most other Western countries have told themselves ever since the discovery of oil turned what used to be nomads herding camels and catching fish into the thriving petrostates they are today.
Most of MENA is only stable on paper, that stability being heavily dependent on oil and gas production providing giant slush funds to citizens and a horde of exploited migrant and seasonal workers providing for daily needs. That's why they all went into tourism so hard over the last two-ish decades, they know that the fossil fuel reserves are eventually going to deplete and worldwide demand collapsing with them, and that's why everyone but Iran eventually made their peace with the existence of Israel despite sometimes heavy opposition of the population, and that's why there's still barely any opposition to the US and Israel waging war against Iran, and that's why most of MENA militaries but Iran and Israel's are utterly useless as well - a capable military would be able of coup'ing away the ruling kleptocracy.
And now the MENA countries are in for a wild ride. The Mullahs are sadly far from gone, the Western world is busy weaning itself off of oil and gas following the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the price shocks related to that plus the Iran war, tourists won't come back in meaningful numbers likely for a decade if not longer.
It is in the interest of everyone in the region and the world to be rid of that brutal Islamist regime. The U.S. and Israel are doing God's work.
Google Maps on Gaza does shows a biblical scene. I'm sure everyone who ever perpetrated a massacre would argue they were doing gods work.
Interested in recommendations of politically stable countries where companies can't practice tax avoidance.
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Now I can add "AWS Bahrain" and "Yandex" to that list.