Drone Strikes Knock AWS Data Centers Offline in Middle East
Amazon Web Services confirms drone attacks damaged facilities in the UAE and Bahrain, causing widespread outages.
Amazon's cloud division just got hit where it hurts. AWS confirmed Monday evening that drone strikes damaged two data centers in the United Arab Emirates and one facility in Bahrain, knocking all three offline.
The attacks have triggered power and connectivity problems across AWS's Middle East infrastructure. Three facilities total were impacted, leaving customers in the region scrambling as services went dark.
Details remain thin on who carried out the strikes or the full scope of the damage. But the incident marks a stark escalation in physical threats to cloud infrastructure — a sector that rarely faces kinetic attacks on this scale.
For AWS, which operates data centers across the globe, this is uncharted territory. The company is dealing with the fallout as it works to restore services across the affected region.