‘One of our Availability Zones (mec1-az2) was impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire,’ said Amazon on its health status dashboard.
One of AWS’ data centers in the Middle East was struck and “impacted by objects” that sparked a fire on March 1 with services still down in the region as of Monday morning.
“One of our Availability Zones (mec1-az2) was impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire,” said Amazon on its health status dashboard at around 7:30 a.m. ET on March 1.
“The fire department shut off power to the facility and generators as they worked to put out the fire,” the company added.
The fire on March 1 at the AWS data center in the United Arab Emirates comes amid Israeli and U.S. military strikes on Iran along with retaliatory attacks from the Iranian…
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