News Summary

• The Middle East has long been keen on becoming a data center hub.
• Money was pouring into the region, as well as plenty from its own coffers, until the war.
• Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard hit a number of Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE and Bahrain with drones and missiles as part of its ongoing war against the United States and Israel.
• It all adds up to a messy, dangerous time to be operating in the space in the region.
• The question for customers is not just whether a facility can survive a strike — so far, they largely have, once restored.
• It's whether customers are comfortable putting critical workloads in a region where geopolitical escalation can suddenly become an operational variable.