Iranian Missile Blitz Knocks Out AWS Data Centers in Bahrain and Dubai

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has declared a "hard down" status for multiple compute zones in the Middle East following a barrage of Iranian missile and drone strikes on its data centers in Bahrain and Dubai. According to a leaked internal memo reported by Big Technology, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attacks have completely disrupted operations in the affected zones, severely impairing redundancy and resiliency. AWS currently has no timeline for when normal operations will resume and is actively urging clients to scale down to minimal footprints as the company scrambles to migrate customer workloads to safer regions. The physical destruction of cloud infrastructure marks a severe escalation in the ongoing geopolitical conflict, which has increasingly targeted U.S. tech giants and threatened the global semiconductor supply chain.

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