Amazon services remain disrupted across Middle East after drones strike data centres
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The news: Amazon Web Services (AWS) said that it is facing ongoing service disruptions affecting the AWS Middle East Region, after the company confirmed that three of its facilities in the region were hit by drone strikes.
The context: Providing an update at 1:04pm UAE time Tuesday afternoon (8:04pm AEDT), Amazon’s cloud unit warned that users in the region faced prolonged disruptions after drones “directly struck” two of its facilities in the United Arab Emirates. A drone also hit another Amazon facility in Bahrain, damaging infrastructure.
Amazon said as it works to restore these facilities, “the ongoing conflict in the region means that the broader operating environment in the Middle East remains unpredictable.”
“We strongly recommend that customers with workloads running in the Middle East take action now to migrate those workloads to alternate AWS Regions. Customers should enact their disaster recovery plans, recover from remote backups stored in other regions, and update their applications to direct traffic away from the affected regions.”
In an earlier update, confirming the drone hits, Amazon said that that it anticipates the recovery to be “prolonged” given the “nature of the physical damage involved.”
The news comes as Israel launched fresh attacks on Tehran and Beirut on Tuesday, with the Israeli military deploying additional soldiers to southern Lebanon to prevent attacks on Israeli border communities.
The Times of Israel quoted Isareli defence minister Israel Katz as saying: “To prevent the possibility of direct fire at Israeli communities, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and I have authorised the IDF to advance and hold additional dominant terrain in Lebanon and defend the border communities from there.”
Meanwhile, Albanese spoke with president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, on Tuesday evening, to discuss bringing the roughly 24,000 Australians currently stranded in the UAE home.
The leaders exchanged views on the current situation, with both acknowledging the importance of resuming commercial flights as soon as possible.
The sources: Amazon updates, Bloomberg, The Guardian, The Times of Israel
