AWS outage in the Middle East: Data center "hit by objects"
10 hours ago
- #AWS outage
- #Middle East conflict
- #data center fire
- AWS outage in the Middle East due to 'objects hitting a data center' in the UAE, causing a fire.
- Outage began on Sunday afternoon local time, affecting the 'ME-CENTRAL-1' region.
- Cause of the outage remains unclear, with speculation it could be related to missile or drone attacks from Iran.
- AWS reports the issue is localized to a single 'Availability Zone' but has wider effects.
- Duration of the outage is uncertain, with users advised to avoid the affected data center.
- Recent airstrikes by Israel and the US on Iran led to counterattacks by Iran on Gulf states.
- Iran's attacks targeted US bases in Gulf states, but these states did not retaliate.
- Several Arab states and the US condemned Iran's counterattacks as a dangerous escalation.