Amazon says drones hit 3 of its Middle East data centers amid Iran conflict

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

Updated on: March 3, 2026 / 10:14 AM EST / CBS News


Amazon said drones struck three of its Middle East data centers, causing outages related to the "ongoing conflict in the Middle East."

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 post on Monday on AWS's health dashboard.

"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.

Operations in the Middle East remain "significantly impaired," AWS said, noting that "customers are experiencing elevated error rates and degraded availability for services."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-drone-strike-aws-data-center-uae-bahrain-iran/

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These cloud service providers usually mirror their data elsewhere but...

[Irish_Dem]

1. Amazon will demand that the US taxpayer rebuild the centers.

[usonian]

2. We ALL pay for the madness of King Donald, wagging the dog.

Big tech ass kissers!!

FAFO

Looks like it's time for new FAFO flags!!!
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219770873



(may be AI-created. It's not mine, anyway)

[Deminpenn]

3. Doesn't DoD use AWS?

nt

[BumRushDaShow]

5. A LOT of agencies use them.

But they have datacenters all over the damn world (and in the U.S.).

[Deminpenn]

6. I'd think those AWS data centers in

the ME are fairly important to US military command and control ops in the area.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Sure, although I would think they would be using encrypted data spaces, possibly not in certain locations

But they are also used for Amazon's own HUGE shopping network too. All kinds of retail stuff and transactions going on using their cloud.

[OC375]

4. Exit from COLO Cloud computing in 3 2 1...

Why take out one company when you can take down hundreds. Mirroring is nice, but there are cold, warm and hot mirroring. Each has pluses and minuses and it can still take hours to get things right as you roll databases forward, pull backups down from yet another cloud (like every single customer of that data center is doing), etc...