Amazon Web Services said it has not been able to restore services and data access at parts of its cloud facilities in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates damaged by drone strikes early in the Iran war. AWS said damage at several Bahrain facilities exceeded what its services were designed to withstand and that resources and data stored only in the region cannot be recovered. In the UAE, one of three availability zones also remains unrecoverable.

Andrew Ng, a Coursera co-founder and deep learning expert, said software engineering fundamentals remain essential in the era of agentic coding. He said developers must understand core principles to tell coding agents what to do and what to forgo, and to manage trade-offs such as latency, availability, reliability and cost. Citing his “AI Engineering Skills” research, Ng listed five needed capabilities: building full-stack applications, data management, system architecture design, making systems secure and stable, and scaling and operating in production.