AWS says it can't restore some data stored exclusively in data centers across Bahrain and one UAE availability zone after Iranian drone strikes in the spring
THE SO WHAT
Cloud redundancy is only real if you actually use multiple regions and providers—AWS losing some Bahrain and UAE-only data to physical attacks turns the shared-responsibility model into a live-fire test. If you have single-region workloads in geopolitically exposed zones, treat this as a change-control moment, not a theoretical risk.
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