No surprises here; there are currently medical and industrial equipments in Iran, sourced from European Union, that are inoperative since they are denied access to European servers due to blanket sanctions against Iran, which include IT.
In Venezuela, due to US sanctions, certain banking and digital services have been affected as well.
I think it is clear that reliance on foreigners for IT could be a grave strategic mistake; further, that China's very expensive effort to indegenize IT has been the correct policy all along.
I also think that providers of Cloud Computing, such as Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure, even though they have global data centers for servicing their clients, are sources of cyber-security threats for their clients, specially those clients that are not domiciled in North America or in EU.
Cloud Computing can and will be weaponized, just as US Dollar, Siemens industrial equipment, Motorola pagers, Software updates, spare parts for civil Aviation, and , presently, GPS have been weaponized.
I feel sorry for the Cloud Computing vendors since, in my opinion, they did not create their products with the expectation of them being used by their governments as geopolitical weapons.
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