{"id":631624,"date":"2026-03-03T08:09:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=631624"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:13:57","slug":"drone-strikes-damage-amazon-data-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/631624-drone-strikes-damage-amazon-data-centres.html","title":{"rendered":"Drone strikes damage Amazon data centres"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amazon\u2019s cloud unit warned of prolonged disruptions to its services after revealing that drone strikes damaged three of its data centres in the Middle East in recent days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazon Web Services said for the first time that drones had \u201cdirectly struck\u201d two facilities in the UAE. In Bahrain, a drone strike near another facility damaged infrastructure, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are working to restore full service availability as quickly as possible, though we expect recovery to be prolonged given the nature of the physical damage involved,\u201d the company said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/health.aws.amazon.com\/health\/status\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> AWS customers are experiencing elevated error rates and degraded availability, the company said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The damage and disruption shows the widening impact of a conflict that is reverberating across the Middle East, with blasts heard in Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The economic fallout has spread to\u00a0global energy markets\u00a0with oil prices spiking and tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz all but grinding to a halt due to the risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of AWS\u2019s three regional data centre hubs \u201cremain significantly impaired,\u201d the company said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/health.aws.amazon.com\/health\/status\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a>\u00a0on its website at 04:19 UAE time on Tuesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A third regional zone is operating normally, although \u201csome services have experienced indirect impact due to dependencies on the affected zones,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AWS said it was working to restore the impacted facilities and recommended that customers in the Middle East back up data and potentially migrate workloads to alternative AWS regions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company operates 123 zones of data centres across 39 regions globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEven 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,\u201d AWS said on its website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company declined to comment beyond the public posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon\u2019s cloud unit warned of prolonged disruptions to its services after revealing that drone strikes damaged three of its data centres in the Middle East in recent days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":535409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[27543,103552,22807,96867,1962,28954,54161,103553],"class_list":["post-631624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-amazon-web-services-aws","tag-bahrain","tag-data-centres","tag-drones-2","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-us-iran-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631630,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631624\/revisions\/631630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}