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Drone strikes damage AWS facilities in UAE and Bahrain
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Amazon Web Services confirmed on Monday that drone strikes on Sunday damaged three of its facilities in the UAE and Bahrain and caused outages.
Why it matters
The incidents occurred on Sunday morning, when AWS reported that objects hit a data centre in the UAE, creating sparks and fire, and it investigated power and connectivity issues at a facility in Bahrain. On Monday, AWS confirmed the outages were caused by drone strikes. AWS said two UAE facilities were hit directly, while in Bahrain a drone strike near one facility caused physical impacts to its infrastructure. AWS said the drones caused structural damage, disrupted power delivery to infrastructure, and in some cases required fire suppression activities that resulted in additional water damage.
Implications
- • Power delivery to affected infrastructure was disrupted at the impacted facilities.
- • Connectivity issues occurred at the Bahrain facility.
- • Fire suppression activities caused additional water damage in some cases.
Who is affected
- • Cloud data-centre operations teams
- • Cloud network operations teams
- • Data-centre power and electrical infrastructure teams
- • Cloud customers hosted in the impacted facilities
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