Last mentioned: Apr 25, 2026
Day 24
NetBlocks confirms the blackout continues with no signs of immediate restoration.
Two-Week Milestone
The blackout surpasses previous records for sustained nationwide disconnection.
Customer Migration Advisory
AWS advises Middle East customers to move traffic to other global regions.
Recovery Progress
AWS reports recovery efforts in UAE are making progress by late Tuesday evening.
Nationwide Escalation
Connectivity drops significantly across all major providers as international gateways are restricted.
Drone Strikes Occur
Iranian drones strike two AWS facilities in UAE and damage one in Bahrain.
AWS Dashboard Update
AWS confirms structural damage and power disruptions on its online health dashboard.
Initial Disruption
Reports of localized outages and throttling begin to surface in major cities.
Iran has entered its 24th day of a near-total nationwide internet blackout, marking one of the most prolonged and severe disruptions ever recorded by monitoring group NetBlocks. The outage has effectively severed the country from the global SaaS ecosystem, halting digital commerce and cloud-dependent operations for millions of users.
Iranian drone strikes have damaged three Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, marking a significant escalation in physical threats to cloud infrastructure. While service disruptions remained localized due to AWS's distributed architecture, the event underscores the growing geopolitical risks facing hyperscalers as they expand into volatile regions.
This page surfaces every story mentioning Iran across our saas coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running saas beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Story count | Number of distinct stories where Iran was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |