An Amazon Web Services data center in the United Arab Emirates suffered a multi-hour outage on Sunday after unidentified “objects” struck the facility and triggered a fire. The incident occurred around 4:30 a.m. local time and affected the availability zone mec1-az2 in the ME-CENTRAL-1 region.

The fire department cut power to combat the flames, resulting in significant disruptions to cloud services. Given the simultaneous Iranian retaliatory attacks on the Gulf states, suspicion arises that the impacting objects may have been missiles or drones. Amazon has not confirmed anything on its part.

AWS Data Center in UAE Goes Dark After Being Hit by “Objects”

An Amazon Web Services data center in the United Arab Emirates suffered a multi-hour outage on Sunday after unidentified "objects" struck the facility and

^{Jakob Steinschaden (Trending Topics)}