Iranian drones struck 3 AWS data centers (2 UAE, 1 Bahrain) causing structural damage, power outages, fire suppression — AWS health dashboard showed 2 of 3 ME-Central availability zones impaired; first kinetic attack on civilian cloud infrastructure in history

Business Insider and Reuters confirmed Iranian drone strikes hit three Amazon Web Services data centers: two in UAE directly hit, one in Bahrain damaged by nearby strike. AWS public statement: ‘These strikes have caused structural damage, disrupted power delivery to our infrastructure, and in some cases required fire suppression activities that resulted in additional water damage. Recovery efforts may be prolonged.’ AWS health dashboard showed two of three ME-Central availability zones ‘impacted by objects’ with ‘electrical issues.’ AWS ME-Central region supports governments, banks, media outlets, corporations across the region. This is the most significant civilian cloud infrastructure kinetic attack in history. Iran’s stated doctrine: ‘all US and Israeli interests are legitimate targets’ — AWS operates alongside IDF for IT services. Implications: AWS ME-Central outage degrades US government and allied contractor operations in theater; establishes precedent for kinetic attack on cloud infrastructure; identifies all US tech companies with Israeli defense contracts as elevated risk targets.