The Cloud Is Just Someone Else’s Computer. Sometimes That Computer Gets Hit by a Drone.

When “Multi-Region Strategy” Means “Outrunning a Military Conflict” So last week a military drone blew up the AWS data center where my customer’s platform runs. The platform serves millions of users across seven countries. I had to spend about a week moving everything from Bahrain to Europe. By hand. Because every single automated migration tool was also broken. Because, you know, the drones. I run a software consultancy. I’ve been in tech long enough to have planned for almost every disaster imaginable. Floods, earthquakes, ransomware, that one guy who drops the production database on a Friday afternoon. “Military drone strike on your cloud provider” was never on the list. And Bahrain is not an isolated case. Right now, data centers in more than ten countries are being targeted or threatened by either Iranian or russian drones. This isn’t a regional incident. It’s a global pattern. And yet, here we are. Welcome to DevOps in 2026. Disaster Recovery Used to Mean Hurricanes. Now It…