Amazon confirmed drone strikes damaged three AWS data centers in the United Arab Emirates and one in Bahrain, causing an extensive outage that is disrupting dozens of cloud services. The company is restoring physical infrastructure and implementing software-based recovery and customer migration options while the UK NCSC warns of heightened risk of Iranian cyberattacks. #AWS #Iran
Keypoints
- Drone strikes physically damaged AWS facilities in the UAE and Bahrain, causing major outages.
- Strikes caused structural damage, power loss, and water damage from fire suppression efforts.
- Three availability zones (mec1-az2, mec1-az3, mes1-az2) remain impaired and experiencing ongoing issues.
- Amazon is pursuing physical repairs and multiple software-based recovery paths while advising customer migrations and backups.
- The UK NCSC warned of an increased risk of Iranian cyberattacks amid the broader Middle East conflict.