Iran Strikes AWS Data Centres, Establishing Cloud Infrastructure as Legitimate Military Target

        May 10, 2026

Iran Strikes AWS Data Centres, Establishing Cloud Infrastructure as Legitimate Military Target

                X-Risk Daily

                Sunday 10 May 2026

Transformative AI

Iran Strikes AWS Data Centres, Establishing Cloud Infrastructure as Legitimate Military Target

On 1 March 2026, Iranian forces used Shahed drones to strike two Amazon Web Services data centres in the United Arab Emirates, with a third commercial data centre in Bahrain also hit.

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