Amazon Data Centre In UAE Struck By Objects Amid Iranian Missile Attacks

An Amazon Web Services data centre in the United Arab Emirates experienced a major disruption yesterday after unidentified objects struck the facility, triggering sparks and a fire. The incident occurred around 4:30pm Dubai time on Sunday, forcing emergency services to shut off power to the facility as they worked to extinguish the blaze.

The cloud computing giant confirmed that one of its Availability Zones (mec1-az2) was impacted by objects that struck the data centre, creating sparks and fire. The company did not specify what the objects were, though the timing coincides with Iran's retaliatory missile and drone strikes following US and Israeli attacks on Iran, which hit airports, ports and residential areas across the country and the wider Gulf.

When questioned about whether the incident was connected to the Iranian strikes, AWS did not confirm or deny. The outage affected multiple cloud services, with customers reporting errors when calling EC2 APIs, specifically networking-related APIs.

AWS stated that it will take several hours to restore connectivity to the impacted zone, though other zones in the region are functioning normally. On Saturday, Iran fired 137 missiles and 209 drones across the UAE, part of a broader wave of retaliatory attacks following strikes that killed senior Iranian officials. The incident highlights growing risks to critical infrastructure as tensions escalate across the Middle East.

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