Operation Epic Fury, the United States’ war against Iran in February, revealed that cloud services are a core component of military operations, not merely back-office IT. During this campaign, one Pentagon AI targeting system experienced a 4,425 percent increase in peak daily usage, prompting the Pentagon’s chief digital and AI officer, Cameron Stanley, to voice significant concern about the ability to sustain such demands.
For NATO, the current trajectory indicates an inability to keep pace. Allies are independently making procurement decisions regarding cloud infrastructure for national civilian and defense purposes, which, while boosting individual capacities, are simultaneously pulling them in harmful, opposite directions. Without urgently needed shared standards on cloud services, these divergent approaches will compound over the coming decades, threatening to destabilize NATO’s digital back end.
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