By Daniel Boffey
Publication Date: 2026-03-07 11:00:00
It is assumed that this is a novelty: the targeted attack by the armed forces of a warring country on a commercial data center.
At 4:30 a.m. Sunday morning, an Iranian Shahed-136 drone hit an Amazon Web Services data center in the United Arab Emirates, starting a devastating fire and forcing a power shutdown. Further damage occurred when attempts were made to extinguish the flames with water.
Shortly afterwards, a second data center belonging to the US technology company was hit. Then a third is said to have run into trouble, this time in Bahrain, after an Iranian suicide drone turned into a fireball in the nearby countryside.
Iranian state television claimed that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched the attack “to determine the role of these centers in supporting the enemy’s military and intelligence activities.”
The network built by Jeff Bezos’ company could withstand one of its regional centers being taken out of commission, but not a second, let alone a third of its massive warehouses…
