For two decades, the global technology industry operated on an unchallenged assumption that cloud infrastructure existed beyond the reach of physical conflict. Companies planned for geopolitical risk in supply chains, energy markets and financial systems, but rarely extended that planning to the digital infrastructure those systems depend on. The ongoing escalation in West Asia has forced that oversight into the open.Iranian drone strikes hit three Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centres - two in the UAE, one in Bahrain - causing structural damage, power failures and fires, marking the first ever confirmed military strike on a hyperscale cloud provider. Two...