Following the US and Israeli operations against Iran over the weekend, Amazon’s cloud computing division reports that drones have attacked three of its facilities in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The incidents occurred on Sunday morning, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) saying at the time that ”objects” had hit a data centre in the UAE, creating ”sparks and fire”. AWS also announced on Sunday that it was looking into connectivity and power problems at a facility in Bahrain. The corporation stated Monday that the outages were caused by drone strikes.
The accidents demonstrate how susceptible critical technology infrastructure, including data centers, is to military conflicts. Two UAE facilities were directly impacted, according to AWS, “while in Bahrain, a drone strike in close proximity to one of our facilities caused physical impacts to our infrastructure.”
According to the corporation, the drones damaged buildings, interfered with infrastructure’s ability to receive power, and in certain situations necessitated firefighting efforts that led to further water damage.’
Although the company is working swiftly to restore services to the impacted locations, it may take some time “given the nature of the physical damage involved,” the company stated. Additionally, it suggested that users of its services in the area “potentially migrate workloads” to other AWS facilities worldwide and back up their data.
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