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Missile and drone attacks have severely impacted Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, prompting urgent calls for customers to migrate operations. Major tech providers like Snowflake and Red Hat,
Iranian drone strikes damaged three Amazon Web Services sites in the Middle East, exposing how vulnerable cloud data centers are in conflict.
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Iranian drone strikes on Amazon data centers expose cloud industry’s vulnerability to conflict
Amazon Web Services (AWS) reports structural damage to data centers in the UAE and Bahrain following Iranian drone strikes, causing localized disruptions.
Will AWS go down again as drones hit Amazon Web Services data centers, facility in Gulf amid US-Israel-Iran war? Amazon confirmed drone strikes damaged UAE and Bahrain sites. The incident disrupted cloud services in parts of the Middle East and raised concerns over data security and outages.
The strikes in Bahrain and the UAE caused structural damage, disrupted power delivery and, in some cases, sparked fires and caused water damage.
AWS is also working towards restoring data access and service availability in the affected regions, which does not require the facilities to be fully brought back online.
Amazon Web Services suffered outages in Bahrain and the UAE after power failures and damage at data centres, as Iranian strikes triggered regional instability.