Amazon’s cloud-computing facilities in the Middle East faced power and connectivity issues on Monday after unidentified “objects” struck its data center in the United Arab Emirates.
The objects had triggered a fire on Sunday that forced authorities to eventually cut power to two clusters of Amazon data centers in the UAE, with restoration expected to take at least a day, according to Amazon Web Services’ status page.
Localized power issues impacted AWS services in both the UAE and neighboring Bahrain, according to the page. Financial institutions that use AWS services have been affected by the outage, said one person with direct knowledge of the situation, requesting anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Iran Fires Missiles, Drones
While Amazon did not identify the objects, the incident happened on the same day Iran fired a barrage of drones and missiles at Gulf States in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah…
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