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Amazon Web Services confirms three data centers in Bahrain and UAE damaged by Iranian drone strikes, per CNBC
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Iranian state media justifies strikes by claiming AWS facilities support U.S. military operations in the region
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Marks unprecedented targeting of civilian cloud infrastructure during military conflict, with potential cascading impact on enterprise and AI workloads
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Enterprise customers and governments face new security calculus about geographic diversification of cloud services
Amazon confirmed Wednesday that three of its AWS data centers in the Middle East sustained damage from Iranian drone strikes, marking the first time a major cloud provider’s physical infrastructure has been targeted in a military conflict. The Bahrain facility suffered collateral damage from a nearby strike, while two UAE data centers took direct hits. Iranian state media claims the attacks targeted infrastructure supporting U.S. military operations, raising urgent questions about the…
https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/amazon-aws-data-centers-hit-by-iranian-drone-strikes
