Drones Hit AWS Data Centers in UAE and Bahrain, AWS Reports Outages

AWS said drone strikes damaged three of its data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, causing fires, structural damage, power and water-related outages, and prompting fire suppression. Two UAE facilities were hit directly while a strike near a Bahrain facility caused outages; AWS is working to restore services and warns the Middle East operating environment remains volatile, advising customers to back up data and consider migrating workloads to other AWS regions.