Middle East Conflict Highlights Cloud Resilience Gaps

The report describes recent multi-domain attacks—kinetic strikes on AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain and a massive Internet outage in Iran—paired with cyber operations (e.g., disk-wipers and ICS-targeting claims). It argues these events mark a shift toward targeting cloud infrastructure as a strategic military objective, warns of severe impacts on critical real-time services and government/military operations, and urges organizations and governments to reassess cloud resilience, disaster recovery, and cross-border data sovereignty.