{"id":996173,"date":"2026-03-04T08:58:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996173"},"modified":"2026-03-04T12:47:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:17:52","slug":"iranian-strikes-on-amazon-data-centres-highlights-industrys-vulnerability-to-physical-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/04\/iranian-strikes-on-amazon-data-centres-highlights-industrys-vulnerability-to-physical-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian strikes on Amazon data centres highlights industry&#8217;s vulnerability to physical disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damage to three Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East from Iranian drone strikes highlights the rapid growth of data centres in the region, as well as the industry&#8217;s vulnerability to conflict. <\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, said late Monday that two data centres in the United Arab Emirates were &#8220;directly struck&#8221; and another facility in Bahrain was also damaged after a drone landed nearby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damage to three Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East from Iranian drone strikes highlights the rapid growth of data centres in the region, as well as the industry&#8217;s vulnerability to conflict. The company&#8217;s cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, said late Monday that two data centres in the United Arab Emirates were &#8220;directly struck&#8221; and another facility in Bahrain was also damaged after a drone landed nearby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}