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The company has announced potential service disruptions in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
“Ongoing conflicts in the Middle East have resulted in physical damage to infrastructure due to drone strikes,” stated Amazon Web Services.
“In the UAE, two of our facilities were hit directly, while in Bahrain, a nearby drone strike affected our infrastructure,” the company added.
These incidents have led to structural damage, interruptions in power supply, and in some instances, fire suppression efforts have caused further water damage.
As a result, users in these areas may experience increased error rates across services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon RDS, as well as the AWS Management Console and CLI services.
The issue is not affecting services outside the UAE and Bahrain.
Amazon is working with local authorities to restore full service, but said it expects this to take some time due to the extent of the damage and ongoing strikes in the Middle East.
It is also working to restore services that do not require the data centres to be repaired.
Amazon advised customers with workloads in the Middle East to back up their data and migrate their workloads to alternative regions, like Australia and the wider Asia Pacific, the US or Europe.
“Even as we work to restore these facilities, the ongoing conflict in the region means that the broader operating environment in the Middle East remains unpredictable,” the company said.
Amazon has an estimated 30 per cent of the global cloud market and powers more than four million businesses worldwide.
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