newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com·Mar 5, 2026
The Pulse highlights a significant event where military drone attacks in Bahrain and the UAE caused AWS datacenters to go offline, marking the first instance of cloud services being disrupted by military strikes.
The content mentions that drone attacks in Bahrain and the UAE caused AWS datacenters to go partially or fully offline, marking the first instance of military strikes impacting cloud services. This highlights the critical need for robust disaster recovery and multi-region redundancy strategies in enterprise architecture for organizations relying on cloud providers like AWS, especially in geopolitically sensitive areas.