{"id":192497,"date":"2026-03-03T15:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2026\/03\/03\/amazon-says-drones-hit-3-of-its-middle-east-data-centers-amid-iran-conflict\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:57:22","slug":"amazon-says-drones-hit-3-of-its-middle-east-data-centers-amid-iran-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2026\/03\/03\/amazon-says-drones-hit-3-of-its-middle-east-data-centers-amid-iran-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon says drones hit 3 of its Middle East data centers amid Iran conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amazon said drones struck three of its Middle East data centers, causing outages related to the “ongoing conflict in the Middle East<\/span>.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Drones directly struck two Amazon Web Services facilities in the United Arab Emirates, and a drone strike near an Amazon data center in Bahrain also damaged that facility, the company said in a\u00a0post\u00a0on Monday on AWS’s health dashboard.<\/p>\n

“These strikes have caused structural damage, disrupted power delivery to our infrastructure, and in some cases required fire suppression activities that resulted in additional water damage,” AWS said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Operations in the Middle East remain “significantly impaired,” AWS said, noting that “customers are experiencing elevated error rates and degraded availability for services.”<\/p>\n

Amazon said it is working to restore services and repair physical damage to its facilities, while cautioning that the “broader operating environment<\/span> in the Middle East remains unpredictable.”<\/p>\n

The company encouraged its customers in the Middle East to back up data and consider migrating workloads to servers in other regions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shares of Amazon declined $3.40, or 1.6%, to $204.99 in early trading.<\/p>\n

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