Attacks on data centers in the Middle East may accelerate the revision of global standards for digital infrastructure protection and open up an opportunity for Ukraine to offer the world its own experience of cloud service resilience during wartime, according to Anton Khvastunov, co-founder and CBDO of GigaCloud. He wrote about this in a blog for the Interfax-Ukraine agency.
According to the author, after the strikes on data centers in the region, the requirements for their protection may approach the standards for the protection of military facilities. This could include non-disclosure of location, new security protocols, additional certification, and mandatory data redundancy between multiple sites so that a direct strike on one facility does not completely shut down services.
Khvastunov notes that this situation creates a window of opportunity for Ukraine, as Ukrainian providers have already gained practical experience in operating and protecting data in wartime conditions. He emphasizes that dependence on a single, even very large, infrastructure provider makes data vulnerable, and therefore the market will move towards interoperability and distributed storage of critical information.
The blog also states that in the spring of 2025, the largest players in the Ukrainian cloud market created the Ukrainian Digital Sovereignty Alliance. According to the author, as part of this initiative, participants are working on a model in which the stability of critical digital infrastructure is ensured not by one provider, but by several major market players simultaneously.
The author believes that the topic of digital sovereignty will become increasingly important in Europe and other regions, and attacks on data centers may make data protection one of the key areas of the new technology policy. The full text of the blog is published on the Interfax-Ukraine website.
Source: Anton Khvastunov’s blog “The war for data centers has begun. What does this mean for the world and Ukraine” on the Interfax-Ukraine website.
