According to Atlantic Council senior fellow Sona Muzikarova, Amazon Web Services data centres in Bahrain and the UAE were disrupted following a drone strike in March during the Iran conflict, with AWS saying recovery would take several months. The attacks exposed vulnerabilities in cloud redundancy systems designed to withstand isolated outages rather than coordinated strikes across multiple facilities. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-linked Tasnim news agency identified Microsoft, Google, IBM and Oracle facilities across the Gulf as “legitimate goals”, citing their role in hosting AI systems.
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