Iran used just a few missiles and drones to drive American global Internet companies out of the Middle East, which is more effective than any commercial competition method, with immediate results.
On March 1st, Iran launched attacks on Amazon Web Services and the initial information infrastructure of Microsoft in the Gulf countries. Afterwards, some digital services in the UAE and Bahrain immediately ceased to operate, and banking application systems suffered large-scale failures.
A few days later, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran destroyed the data center of Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
In this situation, American Amazon and Microsoft Azure had to move their critical business workloads from data centers in the UAE, Bahrain, and Oman to India and Singapore.
This not only means that the global expansion of American Internet companies has been severely affected, but it will also cause the Gulf countries to gradually distance themselves from the United States. In the future, the Gulf countries will have to seriously consider not putting all their eggs in one basket, that is, not relying solely on the United States.
Additionally, Iran's strikes have exposed the weak anti-missile and anti-drone capabilities of the US military, which will inevitably lead more and more countries and regions to urgently seek to possess ballistic missiles and drones.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1859354754720075/
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