AWS Middle East disrupted after ‘objects struck datacenter’ amid Iran war

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Asia In brief One of Amazon Web Services’ availability zones in the United Arab Emirates is offline after the facility was hit by unknown objects.

Amazon’s status page indicated a “localized power issue has affected a single Availability Zone in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region (mec1-az2)” as of 5:19 AM PST on March 1st.

At 9:41 AM the same day AWS said the availability zone “was impacted by objects that struck the datacenter, creating sparks and fire. The fire department shut off power to the facility and generators as they worked to put out the fire.”

AWS has not explained what the objects were or where they came from, but a likely explanation is debris from the conflict between the USA and Israel, and Iran as ...