The Iran war has hit Amazon data centers in the region, and the company is working around the clock on availability, cloud chief Matt Garman said.

Before dawn on March 1, 2026, Iranian Shahed drones struck two Amazon Web Services data centers in the United Arab Emirates. A third commercial data center in Bahrain was hit, though it is less clear ...

Iran’s drone strikes on three of Amazon’s Middle East data centers were the first military attacks on U.S. tech giants’ digital infrastructure — but they likely won’t be the last. Data centers are ...

Digital services in the UAE experienced outages earlier this week as data centers in the country were hit by Iranian drone strikes. An AWS facility in Bahrain was also damaged by a nearby drone strike ...

In today’s 2 Minute Tech Briefing, AI data centers may raise local temperatures, Google patches a dangerous Chrome zero-day exploit, and Amazon’s Bahrain cloud site faces renewed drone attacks. Stay ...