Amazon reports drone strikes damage three data centres in UAE and Bahrain
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Amazon Web Services confirmed that drone strikes damaged three data centre facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, causing structural harm, disrupted power delivery and water damage from fire-suppression activities.
Why it matters
Physical attacks on cloud infrastructure create longer, more complex restoration processes because damage to power and facilities can cascade into prolonged outages. Organisations using regional cloud capacity can no longer assume single-region resilience and must treat Gulf-hosted services as operationally less reliable.
Implications
- • IT teams managing cloud deployments serving customers in the UAE and Bahrain must back up critical data to other regions and migrate at-risk workloads to non-Gulf AWS regions.
- • Regional data centre operations and facilities teams must inspect and remediate structural, electrical and water-damage issues before restoring full service.
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