【Gulf Internet Operations Face Threat】
Iran attacked Batelco, Bahrain's largest telecom operator, and its hosted Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers. Following the attack, various services began to fail—power outages occurred, and data centers were confirmed damaged. System failures have already affected banking operations and airline reservation systems.
The nature of modern warfare has fundamentally changed—war is no longer limited to tanks and soldiers; attacking an adversary's digital core (telecommunications, cloud computing, power infrastructure) can also inflict devastating strategic blows, with impacts rapidly spilling over globally.
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