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Drone Strikes Damage AWS Data Centers in Middle East

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Drone strikes have damaged three AWS data centers in the UAE and one in Bahrain, causing extensive outages across multiple cloud services. The attacks are suspected to be part of Iran's response to recent U.S. and Israeli strikes in the Middle East. The incidents have disrupted the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region (ME-CENTRAL-1) and the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region (ME-SOUTH-1), with significant structural and power infrastructure damage reported. Amazon is working on recovery efforts, including restoring physical infrastructure and implementing software-based recovery paths. Customers are advised to back up data and migrate workloads to unaffected regions.

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  1. 03.03.2026 13:44 1 articles · 23h ago

    Drone Strikes Damage AWS Data Centers in Middle East

    Drone strikes have damaged AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, causing extensive outages. The attacks are suspected to be part of Iran's response to recent U.S. and Israeli strikes. Amazon is working on recovery efforts, including restoring physical infrastructure and implementing software-based recovery paths. Customers are advised to back up data and migrate workloads to unaffected regions.

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