Iran Demonstrates Capability to Strike Cloud Infrastructure, Hitting AWS Data Centres
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<div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; color: #444; line-height: 1.5; margin-top: 8px;">On 1 March, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) struck three Amazon Web Services (AWS) facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain with drone attacks, explicitly claiming responsibility and citing the data centres' role in supporting US military and intelligence networks.</div>
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