Multiple AWS zones in UAE and Bahrain offline or disrupted Multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) availability zones in the Middle East are experiencing outages or degraded connectivity after objects struck a UAE facility,

Two of Amazon’s three AWS Middle East cloud availability zones remain disrupted after a fire at a datacentre in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on

On Sunday, Amazon.com, Inc.'s AMZN Web Services said a fire triggered by objects striking one of its UAE data centers forced a power shutdown, disrupting cloud services in the region. Strike-Linked Fire Disrupts AWS Availability Zone Amazon's cloud division,

A data center is supposed to be the quietest kind of battlefield: rows of servers humming in chilled rooms, invisible to the people whose emails, payments and apps run through them. On Monday, one such facility in the Gulf briefly became something else entirely.