AWS outages spread as Iran bombards targets across Gulf region

Multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) availability zones in the Middle East are experiencing outages or degraded connectivity after objects struck a UAE facility, as Iranian retaliatory missile and drone attacks hit targets across the Gulf.

The disruptions came a day after the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran. At 1251 UTC, Amazon began investigating a disruption to its mec1-az2 availability zone in the United Arab Emirates. 

Roughly five hours later, Amazon revealed that the facility "was impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire." Power to the facility was cut by local authorities to contain the blaze. 

Amazon hasn't specified what those objects might be, but the datacenter appears to have been caught in the crossfire between the US and Iranian forces in the region. In response to US and Israeli strikes on Iran, Tehran has launched a series of missile and drone attacks ...