Iran Strikes Leave Amazon Availability Zones "Hard Down" in Bahrain and Dubai
6 hours ago
- #AWS outage
- #tech infrastructure
- #Iran conflict
- Iranian strikes have caused significant damage to Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure in Dubai and Bahrain, rendering two availability zones 'hard down'.
- AWS employees have been instructed to deprioritize the affected regions due to ongoing impairment and lack of normal redundancy and resiliency.
- Amazon is assisting customers in migrating their workloads to other AWS regions, as the company has no timeline for restoring normal operations in Dubai and Bahrain.
- Amazon's facilities in Bahrain and the UAE have been hit multiple times, with Iran targeting U.S. tech infrastructure as part of the ongoing conflict.
- The internal communication highlights that both regions have availability zones that are either completely down or impaired but still functioning.
- The article also mentions an upcoming podcast episode with OpenAI President Greg Brockman discussing AI strategy, super apps, and progress toward AGI.