Drone Strikes Hit AWS Data Centers in UAE and Bahrain, Cloud Services Disrupted
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Drone strikes damaged three AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain amid US-Iran tensions, disrupting EC2, S3, and DynamoDB services, causing structural damage and water-related outages from fire suppression, with recovery expected to be prolonged; AWS warns the regional operating environment remains unpredictable and advises customers to back up data and consider migrating workloads to other regions.
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