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satellite imagery appears to show strike damage at two amazon aws data centers in bahrain, at zallaq and askar, with iran's irgc claiming responsibility; drone incidents had already hit the sites in march and april. state-attributed physical strikes on hyperscale cloud infrastructure would mark cloud data centers as legitimate wartime targets — a boundary that had held until now. operational impact is not yet independently confirmed.

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the us-iran war has crossed into civilian compute infrastructure. a fire was reported at an aws data center in bahrain after an iranian drone attack, which iranian state-affiliated media claimed was deliberate, while us-israel strikes destroyed the high-performance computing center at sharif university of technology in tehran. cloud regions and university supercomputers being treated as legitimate wartime targets is structurally new. 93%
three amazon data centers in the uae and bahrain and at least one saudi oil facility show fresh damage in satellite imagery following iranian and houthi missile and drone attacks, while multiple undersea fiber cuts in the red sea degraded internet across the middle east and south asia and slowed microsoft azure. commercial cloud infrastructure is now taking direct kinetic hits alongside oil, which is a category of target that was previously treated as neutral ground. 93%
the us-iran conflict extended into digital and physical infrastructure: gps spoofing reportedly affected more than 1100 vessels in a single day, a strike hit aws data centers in the uae — described as the first confirmed attack on hyperscale cloud — and a wiper campaign disabled over 200,000 stryker medical devices. reporting frames the coordinated digital attacks as more damaging than closing the strait of hormuz. that inversion of the classic chokepoint calculus is the notable part. 90%
data centers were struck as war targets on both sides of the iran conflict — iran hit neighbours' facilities, the us hit an iranian one — while iran's own internet returned after an 88-day national blackout and stabilized at only 59% of pre-shutdown traffic. separately french polynesia lost stable connectivity for nearly 13 days with degraded routing announcements. compute and routing are being treated as physical military objectives rather than civilian background. 88%
us airstrikes hit multiple sites in southern iran while iranian shahed drones struck a us patriot air-defense system in erbil, iraq, and a hotel hosting american troops in oman. the confrontation has moved from single retaliatory strikes into a distributed regional exchange touching three countries and threatening gulf energy infrastructure. the geographic spread, not the strikes themselves, is the structural change. 88%
three commercial tankers, including a qatari lng carrier, were attacked near the strait of hormuz within a single 24-hour window, with suspected iranian missiles and drones as the cause. the joint maritime information center raised its threat level to severe and the us-iran ceasefire is now visibly undermined. roughly a fifth of the world's oil transits this strait; three strikes in one day is a structural escalation, not an incident. 86%

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