ISTANBUL Data infrastructure has shifted from a tool of geopolitical competition to a direct component of modern warfare as the conflict between the US, Israel, and Iran escalates. Gloria Shkurti Ozdemir, a researcher at the think tank SETA and a lecturer at Azerbaijan’s Khazar University, told Anadolu that digital infrastructure is no longer merely a lever in geopolitical competition, as Tehran’s retaliatory attacks have shown. Iran launched strikes against Amazon Web Services (AWS) facilities