Iran Drone Strikes Damage AWS Data Centers

Drone strikes, attributed to Iran in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli actions that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, damaged Amazon===Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Two facilities in the United Arab Emirates were directly struck, and one in Bahrain experienced physical impact from a nearby drone strike. This resulted in structural damage, power disruptions, and water damage from fire suppression efforts, leading to prolonged outages of core cloud services. Financial institutions, including ADCB, were affected by the disruption. The incident marks the first time a major U.S. tech company's data center has been hit by military action, raising significant questions about the security and pace of Big Tech's expansion in the Middle East, a region being positioned as an AI computing hub by companies like Microsoft, Google, and Oracle Corporation.