Three AWS data centers. Offline.
Banking stopped. Payments stopped. Enterprise software stopped. Across the region.
Two facilities in the UAE. One in Bahrain. Struck by Iranian drones in March 2026. The first deliberate kinetic attack on commercial cloud infrastructure in history.
Iran's state news agency said the Bahrain facility was targeted specifically to disrupt military and intelligence operations running on it. The US military runs workloads on AWS.
"The cloud" is a building. That building has a zip code. That zip code can be struck by a missile.
Contractual sovereignty doesn't protect a building.
If the infrastructure isn't yours (architecturally), it was never really yours at all.