The outage underscored how escalating regional tensions are spilling into critical infrastructure, raising fresh concerns over the resilience of cloud services that underpin governments, banks and businesses across the Gulf
Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a disruption to its services after unidentified objects struck one of its data centres in the United Arab Emirates, causing a fire.
While it is unclear if the incident is related to the conflict between the United States and Iran, the fire broke out on the same day Iranian projectiles struck the UAE in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior officials.
AWS said the incident occurred at about 4:30 p.m. Dubai time on March 1 and that the fire department shut off power to the facility and its generators while working to extinguish the blaze, according to a post on its Health Dashboard.
“One of our Availability Zones… was impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire,” the company said, referring to regional groups of data centres.
AWS said it did not have an estimated time for when power would be restored to the affected facility. Other groups of data centres were not impacted and traffic was being routed away from the site, it said.
Iran’s retaliation has spread across the Middle East, with waves of missile and drone attacks launched against U.S. bases and allies in the region, including in the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
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