According to an Amazon Web Services update on Tuesday, Iranian drone strikes left some of the tech giant’s data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in tatters – and that it was “unable to restore access to the resources and data hostedại on them.
“The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand,” Amazon admitted. It told customers to move their data to other cloud regions and make use of any remote backups.
As the company points out, the drone strikes first began in March, first highlighting how critical digital infrastructure near an active warzone has quickly become a major vulnerability, giving Iranian forces a key target and plenty of leverage.
It’s a particularly pertinent topic due to how much money is being poured into Gulf states to expand key infrastructure to support Al. Indeed, just weeks after the March incidents, more Iranian drones struck Amazon data centers in Bahrain again, causing a major “service disruption.”
Just last week, officials in the UAE announced that they were revising Al data center plans following the latest attacks – further highlighting a key vulnerability for both their own nation and big American business that Iran is exploiting with relative ease.
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