Ars Technica to host November 17 discussion on cloud risks from drone strikes
Growing attacks on data centers in Eastern Europe and the Middle East are raising new operational and security concerns for cloud providers, governments and users of digital services. A live Ars Technica discussion on November 17 will examine how drone and missile strikes are testing cloud resilience and shaping deployment decisions in higher-risk regions.
Highlights
- Ars Technica will host a livestream on November 17 at 1 pm ET about growing risks from drone attacks on data centers and cloud resilience.
- Senior research fellow Joseph Jarnecki will discuss how military drone and missile strikes, such as Iran's attacks on Amazon data centers, impact Big Tech and government infrastructure planning.
- The event will analyze challenges of protecting data centers against drone threats and explore strategies to increase cloud resilience amid rising geopolitical tensions.
November 17 event on cloud resilience
As reported by Ars Technica, the livestream conversation, titled “Drone attacks and data centers: New Risks for Big Tech,” is scheduled for Tuesday, November 17 at 1 pm Eastern Time. The session is set to focus on how physical attacks on data centers are becoming a more significant risk for companies that run cloud infrastructure and for public institutions that rely on those systems.The discussion will be hosted with Joseph Jarnecki, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a UK defense and security think tank. His work focuses on the role of cloud services in national security, defense planning and technology sovereignty efforts.
Jarnecki has also researched how Ukraine strengthened cloud resilience with Western partners while facing cyberattacks and kinetic attacks at the start of the full-scale Russian invasion. That work has fed into wider questions for NATO and European governments as they consider cloud adoption and infrastructure planning.
Broader implications for Big Tech and governments
This year, Jarnecki has written about Iran’s drone and missile strikes on Amazon data centers in the Middle East during the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, as well as the wider implications for governments and major technology groups. He has also commented on the effects of Russian and Ukrainian strikes on each other’s data centers.The conversation is expected to address why data centers are becoming more prominent military targets and whether hardening those facilities against drones and missiles is realistic. It will also examine how cloud resilience can be improved in wartime conditions and what choices governments and providers face as geopolitical risks increase.
We have previously noted the WTO warning that Middle East conflict and geopolitics are reshaping global trade flows and supply chains.
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