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Amazon's AWS reports outage after UAE data center struck by 'objects'
A fire caused by objects striking an AWS UAE data center disrupted multiple cloud services and required power shutdown; recovery is expected to take at least a day, AWS said.
- Yesterday, Amazon Web Services said an Availability Zone mec1-az2 in the UAE's ME-CENTRAL-1 region was struck by objects, causing sparks, fire, and a localized power outage.
- The impact came from unidentified 'objects' that struck the facility around 7:30 a.m. ET, producing sparks and triggering a blaze; AWS did not confirm their source, though some outlets suggested debris from the regional conflict involving Iran, the US and Israel.
- AWS reported impaired connectivity to Elastic Compute Cloud instances, Elastic Block Store volumes, and database services, routing traffic away while other Availability Zones remained operational with partial recovery by Sunday.
- AWS told customers to switch to alternate Availability Zones or other AWS Regions to reduce downtime as the Bahrain region also faces localized power issues and two Availability Zones in the UAE remain powerless on March 2.
- Videos over Dubai showed missiles while the outage occurred amid Iranian missile and drone strikes in the UAE, though AWS did not confirm a link.
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Several Amazon Web Services are down in the Middle East after three data centres were damaged in drone strikes. The company has issued an alert for disruptions to multiple services in the United Arab Emirates and in Bahrain. "Due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, both affected regions have experienced physical impacts to infrastructure as a result of drone strikes," Amazon Web Services said.READ MORE: The Australian employers where …
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