Amazon data centers damaged by drone strikes in Middle East
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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.
Amazon’s cloud service, AWS, said on Sunday that power to its data center in the United Arab Emirates was shut down temporarily after objects struck the facility, triggering sparks and a fire.
An Amazon Web Services data centre in the UAE reported a disruption in their services after being hit by something that caused a fire but it was not officially confirmed if it was caused by the ongoin