AWS facilities in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain remain mostly offline after Iranian drones hit them in March, testing the region's pitch for AI and data processing (Wall Street Journal) — SkimNews
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- AWS facilities in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain remain mostly offline after Iranian drones struck them in March, according to the Wall Street Journal.
- The prolonged outage is testing the region's multibillion-dollar pitch to host AI and data processing infrastructure, with Amazon's regional capacity still down months after the attack.
Why it matters: Months-long downtime at Amazon's Gulf flagship facilities puts the region's AI-hub ambitions to an immediate stress test: cloud tenants evaluating Abu Dhabi or Bahrain for latency or compliance reasons now face proof that geopolitical exposure can translate into extended outages, potentially rerouting workloads to less exposed regions.
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