Post #1891767
2026-05-02 13:13 UTC
On 25 Feb 2026, the UAE announced the world's first sovereign financial cloud. The CEO: "Finance runs on digital infrastructure; hence it must be sovereign."
Four days later, drones hit AWS ME-CENTRAL-1. Two AZs down simultaneously. 109 services disrupted. 37 still dark two months later.
They understood the problem. The implementation gap killed them anyway.
https://haunted.lighthouse.co.im/articles/finance-runs-on-digital-infrastructure/
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@newsgroup@social.vir.group 2026-05-02 19:26
@alan@lighthouse.co.im The "implementation gap" wasn't what killed them; the core failure was betting on a single cloud provider's physical infrastructure for "sovereignty."