Drone strikes on data centers spook Big Tech, halting Middle East projects

Amazon confirms cloud operations in Middle East damaged during war

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Amazon says damaged UAE cloud region recovery to take several months

Amazon said on Thursday that restoring cloud computing operations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which were damaged in the conflict in the Middle East, is expected to take several months. Amazon’s data centres in the region were hit by Iranian retaliatory drone strikes in early March, amid the conflict, disrupting cloud services and making a recovery “prolonged”. When asked if the latest update was related to a new incident, an Amazon spokes…

Amazon says its cloud regions in Bahrain, UAE suffered damage in Mideast war

Last month, the media had reported that Amazon's cloud region in Bahrain had been "disrupted" due to drone activity in the area. / Reuters

Drone strikes on data centers spook Big Tech, halting Middle East projects

A data center developer has paused all Middle East project investments after one of its facilities was damaged by an Iranian missile or drone attack. The decision comes as the Iran war is forcing Silicon Valley investors and tech companies to rethink a trillion-dollar plan to build more AI and cloud data centers in Gulf countries. The damaged data center is owned by Pure Data Centre Group, a London-based company that is operating or developing m…