Amazon cloud services in Middle East face outage after object hits its data centre in UAE
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Amazon's cloud unit, AWS, reported power and connectivity issues at its data centres in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates amid escalating Iranian missile and drone strikes in the Gulf.
Amazon cloud-computing unit's facilities in the Middle East were facing power and connectivity issues on Monday, the company said after its United Arab Emirates data center was struck by "objects," triggering a fire.
Amazon Web Services' UAE and Bahrain regions were affected by outages, it said, citing localized power issues for both regions.
Two of Amazon cloud unit's zones, which are clusters of data centers, in the UAE were without power on Monday, the company said on its status page.
AWS said on Sunday that one zone in the UAE was affected after "objects" struck the data center and created sparks and fire, following which power was shut off.
"We can confirm that a localized power issue has affected another availability zone" in the UAE region, AWS said.
AWS did not confirm or deny, when asked earlier, whether the UAE incident was connected to the Iranian strikes on neighbouring Gulf states, including the UAE and Bahrain, in response to U.S. and Israeli attacks on the Islamic Republic.
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