Amazon says drones damaged three facilities in UAE and Bahrain
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''. Also on Sunday, AWS said it was investigating power and connectivity issues at a facility in Bahrain. Kenya..
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has confirmed that drones struck three of its facilities in the UAE and Bahrain on Sunday morning. The incidents followed US and Israeli strikes against Iran over the weekend.
- Two UAE facilities were hit directly, while a drone strike near a Bahrain facility caused physical damage.
- Amazon's cloud computing business, AWS, is working to restore services and has advised customers to back up data and potentially migrate workloads.
- These strikes highlight the vulnerability of critical technology infrastructure during military conflicts, with AWS warning of an unpredictable operating environment in the Middle East.
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