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The Pulse: AWS region knocked offline by drone attack in historic first

Also: 40% job cuts at Block “not due to AI”, Antigravity bans reinforce Google’s disdain for paying customers, and more

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Gergely Orosz
Mar 05, 2026
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The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Hit reply and share it with me.

Today, we cover:

  1. Military strikes take down cloud services for the first time. Drone attacks in Bahrain and the UAE took AWS datacenters partially or fully offline during the early days of the Iran…

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