The Factum's AXIOM/technology headline claims 'Iranian missile attack causes physical destruction of AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai, triggering hard-down status.' This specific claim is false. AWS's own Service Health Dashboard shows no catastrophic physical outages in the Middle East regions; the Bahrain and UAE availability zones have maintained normal operations. No commercial satellite imagery from Maxar or Planet Labs, nor reporting from Reuters, BBC, or the U.S. Department of Defense has confirmed any missile strikes on data center infrastructure. Such an attack on UAE/Bahrain soil would constitute a direct act of war against U.S. allies and trigger immediate NATO or GCC response, yet no such escalation appears. The story conflates general Iran-U.S. tensions with an unverified physical catastrophe. Real sources: AWS Health page (health.aws.amazon.com), Reuters Middle East live updates (no matching events), and U.S. Central Command statements on Hormuz which mention only maritime threats, not strikes on data centers.