- AWS Middle East Central Availability Zone struck by “objects”
- The data center caught fire and had to have its power removed
- Amazon is still waiting for power connection before it can issue a fix
One of Amazon‘s UAE-based data centers has been struck in the ongoing conflict unfolding in the region, causing the Middle East Central mec1-az2 Availability Zone to experience some outages.
The local fire department was called to extinguish the fire, shutting off mains power and generators to isolate the issue as a resolution plays out.
AWS is currently waiting for permission to restore power to the center, after which point restoration could still take several hours.
Middle East strikes hit AWS data center
“At around 4:30 AM PST [on Sunday March 1], one of our Availability Zones (mec1-az2) was impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire,” the company said, neither confirming not denying that the strike was…
