On March 1, Iranian drones struck two Amazon Web Services data centers in the United Arab Emirates, and a third was damaged in Bahrain. Banking apps went dark. Payment platforms froze. For weeks, cloud services across the Gulf remained partially offline. The technology industry has long spoken of “the cloud” as though it were weightless, distributed, resilient, borderless. The Iran war corrected that metaphor with fire. The cloud has an address. That address can be hit by a drone that costs