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escalatory·Mar 9·Monday, March 9, 2026
Iranian attacks on Amazon data centers signal a new kind of war
escalatory·85% confidence
Summary
First-ever military strikes on a hyperscale cloud provider. AWS ME-CENTRAL-1 remains degraded with 2 of 3 availability zones offline after 3 weeks.
Risk Impacts (2)
Established precedent for targeting cloud infrastructure as military target
Current probability:65%High
Physical infrastructure attacks compound cyber vulnerabilities
Current probability:72%High