As data centres become target of strikes, there is one more critical infrastructure to protect

Cloud is a rather soft, non-techie word for what it really is—server farms that are the digital backbone of the world. But that fluffy idea of data residing far away, ready to turn up at your command has suddenly been shattered.

Geopolitics happened. Drones turned up. Last week, right after Israel and US attacked Iran, Tehran retaliated. And by design or by accident, cloud computing facilities operated by Amazon Web Services in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain were damaged in drone strikes. Then news emerged that Microsoft Azure’s data centres might have also been targeted.