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Iranian drone strikes have caused permanent data loss at Amazon data centers in Bahrain and the UAE, highlighting vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure and geopolitical risks to tech systems.
AWS has reported that it cannot restore some data from its Middle East facilities after they were struck by Iranian attacks, highlighting the vulnerabilities of cloud infrastructure to geopolitical conflicts.
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Ahmad Vahidi reiterated that Iran will neither surrender its enriched uranium nor halt its long-range missile program ahead of possible second-round peace talks with the US, insisting that a lasting peace requires a full US withdrawal from the Middle East.
A critical vulnerability in global semiconductor supply chains centers on bromine, a non-substitutable raw material for manufacturing DRAM and NAND flash memory. South Korea sources 97.5% of its bromine imports from Israel, and recent Iranian missile strikes near Israel's Dead Sea extraction facilities pose an immediate risk to global chip production.