On Sunday, Amazon.com, Inc.’s Web Services said a fire triggered by objects striking one of its UAE data centers forced a power shutdown, disrupting cloud services in the region.
Amazon’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services, confirmed that a localized power outage hit a single Availability Zone in its Middle East (UAE) region after objects struck the facility, causing sparks and a fire.
According to AWS, the fire department cut power to the site, including backup generators, while crews worked to extinguish the blaze.
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The affected zone, known as mec1-az2, experienced connectivity issues, impairing Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, Elastic Block Store volumes, database services and networking-related APIs.
“We can confirm that a localized power issue has affected a single Availability Zone in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region,” the company said in a service update.
AWS reported increased error rates for several EC2 networking functions, including…
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