Drone Attacks Expose Vulnerability of Global Cloud Infrastructure

Amazon says it will take several more months to repair AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain after Iranian drone strikes caused extensive physical damage, flooding, and cooling system failures. AWS has suspended billing for affected regions and is urging customers to migrate workloads to other cloud zones while recovery continues. Internal reports indicate that multiple EC2 racks were knocked offline, highlighting the severity of the attack and the fragility of cloud infrastructure in conflict zones. The incident has already prompted other data center developers to pause Middle East investments as regional tensions escalate.

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