Not Amazon. Not a generic cloud provider. Microsoft — whose Azure platform runs the operational backbone of NATO, the US Department of Defense, and every major Western financial institution that has expanded into the Gulf over the last five years.
This is categorically different from the AWS strikes earlier in the war.
Microsoft Azure is not simply a commercial cloud product. It is a defense-grade infrastructure platform operating under FedRAMP High and DoD Impact Level 5 and 6 authorizations, the highest security classifications available to a commercial provider.
Azure GovCloud runs classified US government workloads. Azure for Operators runs 5G military communications infrastructure.
The Gulf Azure availability zones, built under billions of dollars of sovereign cloud commitments to UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, sit at the intersection of commercial enterprise and military-adjacent operations in a way no other cloud platform does. Get The Full, Details. .
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