Amazon Cloud Unit's Data Centers In UAE, Bahrain Damaged In Drone Strikes (reuters.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/03/03/0423206/amazon-cloud-units-data-centers-in-uae-bahrain-damaged-in-drone-strikes
- Source link: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amazon-cloud-unit-flags-issues-bahrain-uae-data-centers-amid-iran-strikes-2026-03-02/
> A strike on the UAE facility marks the first time a major U.S. tech company's data center has been disrupted by military action. It raises questions around Big Tech's pace of expansion in the region. "In the UAE, two of our facilities were directly struck, while in Bahrain, a drone strike in close proximity to one of our facilities caused physical impact to our infrastructure," Amazon's cloud unit Amazon Web Services (AWS) said in an update on its status page. "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. "We 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," it added.
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> Financial institutions that use AWS services have been affected by the outage, one person with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters, requesting anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. "Even 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," AWS said. The AWS outage disrupted a dozen core cloud services and the company advised customers to back up critical data and shift operations to servers in unaffected AWS regions. Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank said its platforms and mobile app were unavailable due to a region-wide IT disruption, although it did not directly link the outage to the AWS incident.
"In previous conflicts, regional adversaries such as Iran and its proxies targeted pipelines, refineries, and oil fields in Gulf partner states. In the compute era, these actors could also target data centers, energy infrastructure supporting compute, and fiber chokepoints," Washington-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies said last week.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~sizzlinkitty
[2] https://apnews.com/article/iran-israel-us-03-02-2026-cb42936de1d8c261be8f30f11c6665fa
[3] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amazon-cloud-unit-flags-issues-bahrain-uae-data-centers-amid-iran-strikes-2026-03-02/
Good (Score:2)
This shows that no matter how much you cozy up you're not safe.
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Yeah, Iranian drones striking an Amazon data-center is Trump's fault.
Flip the script, if Trump decided against intervention because retaliation might negatively impact some of the large corporations that donated to his inauguration, you'd be criticizing him for that too, would you not?
Honestly its tiring seeing you TDSers post over and over again. Yet we have to respond because otherwise some low-information voter might read it and not realize they are just looking at a stopped clock.
Real questions for you
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North Korea (and a dozen other countries) does everything you accuse Iran of yet we don't even think of acting.
Why Iran?
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The bomb - and China.
So do you want more nominal enemies that are effectively untouchable? How is that good for us?
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Rubio just said it's because Netanyahu forced Trump to do it. Even his allies are telling you that Trump is easy to manipulate.
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The bomb that has been two weeks away for decades, and which was supposedly fully prevented nine months ago? Why are you so credulous toward fools who have done nothing but lie to you? Meanwhile, Russian officials have been recorded laughing at how manipulable the head lying fool is but sure, known manipulative shit-stirrer Netanyahu is being nothing but a supportive partner to the fool in chief.
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> How many people should the Iranian regime be allowed to execute (exuecte not jail, not deport, not ... whatever, KILL) for protesting?
I suspect that according to you for the USA the number should be at least 2
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I’m curious where the penalty for interfering with law enforcement is death and why it was carried out by police and not a jury.
The Ashli Babbit shooting was justified. Stop breaking into the building or we’ll shoot. She bled out while wearing a Trump flag.
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> In any case, America isn't worse off for having crippled Iran.
Your reasoning, and the questions you ask, remind me of the propagandists from the Iraq war, people shouting "Is the world better off without Saddam Hussein? Answer the question! Yes or no! Yes or no!" and the problem with that it's not really a yes-no question, it's a cost-benefit question. There are human costs, military costs, fiscal costs, political costs, opportunity costs. For Americans and for everyone else. I don't see you talking about the costs.
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Bending the knee to Trump includes becoming a target, good luck with your worldwide expansions. These rich people really need less yes men, and more Les Nessman!
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As god is my witness
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Obama had this covered a decade ago. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
But since it was the black guy's doing we can't have that today.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action
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That is the difference between asking someone real nicely to stop following you and taking their boots so they can't.
Obama's strategy was talk, and as far as the rest of the world went it was just that talk.
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How’s that no new wars promise working out? [1]https://www.nytimes.com/live/2... [nytimes.com]
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/02/world/iran-us-israel-attack-trump
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Not too good.
Like I said I am not really defending the policy, knowing what I know (I don't get CIA intelligence briefings) I don't think I would have made this call.
However I can see see arguments for the aggression and the timing. I don't think anyone outside the Pentagon and White House; can credibly state if this was or was not a well considered action, and I don't think anyone can know if it will prove to have been a good strategic move or not.
Until the dust settlers or certainly worse continues to be
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What a silly stance to take in response to the "taking their boots" strategy getting American companies bombed. The talk worked, according to all of our and our allies' intelligence. Starting shit nine months ago got us to today.
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In what reality was it working?
Terrorism and chaos had been and continued to be the norm in the region. We were still looking at declining influence and future where we will not be able to project force effectively.
Iran was still enabling our enemies around the world, and undermining our efforts elsewhere.
Just because you developed a tolerance for the status quo does not indicate things were working.
I return to - America is unquestionably better off in a world where Iran is impoverished and helpless (alrea
Outage? How many facilities were hit? (Score:2)
It only one data center was hit, most AWS customers who properly configured their infrastructure over multiple availability zones shouldn't be seriously impacted by this outage. It should have just failed over seamlessly.
Of course, that also requires that AWS engineered THEIR infrastructure correctly and everything failed over as expected. I've found in the past that AWS's actual data center resiliency isn't as good as their marketing says that it is.
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Well, per the summary, three separate AWS facilities were hit.
But...
> who properly configured their infrastructure over multiple availability zones
Yeah, based on history, that's far from guaranteed. Particularly for places that see cloud hosting as a cost optimization, they tend to cheap out beyond all reason.
> I've found in the past that AWS's actual data center resiliency isn't as good as their marketing says that it is.
Also this, AWS has even recently had outages due to some of their infrastructure being non-redundant and pinned to a specific site.
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BAH servces were not impacted, but DXB is basically down one and a half AZs.
Epstein-Iran War (Score:2)
After that Melania movie, Amazon deserves this.
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> After that Melania movie, Amazon deserves this.
I wish I had mod points. This deserves modded up as either funny or insightful, maybe both.
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How soon before SNL uses this?
Provocation? (Score:2)
What's it going to take for Amazon to get their strike teams involved in this war?
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What, JB upgrades gov't addresses in Iran to Amazon's new ++Prime Blue Rocket Drone delivery and gifts everyone there a complimentary salad spinner, with free delivery?
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> This matters, because for whatever Iran is or is not, and no matter how we might judge them for their actions, we should only do so for things they actually did, not things they didn't (and arguably were actually done by the UAE)
does it really matter? iran has bombed many critical interests in the area, from businesses to "intelligence" and nearly all military assets, which is the military strategy they quite clearly announced before the (well expected) "sneak" attack: if you do attack again we will set the whole region on fire.
in the bigger picture this whole thing is about maintaining decades long western control of western asia (trade routes, ports, resources) through buying out, weakening or balkanizing all these countries, spe
Ask trump for repairs (Score:2)
Just like putin back in 2022, he started this shit, so it is his job to fix it.