On Sunday, Amazon.com, Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) Web services said a fire caused by objects hitting one of the UAE’s data centers caused a power outage, disrupting cloud services in the region.
Strike-related fire disrupts AWS availability zone
Amazon’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services, confirmed that a local power outage affected a single Availability Zone in the Middle East (UAE) after objects struck the facility, causing sparks and fire.
According to AWS, firefighters shut off power to the site, including backup generators, while crews worked to extinguish the fire.
The affected zone, known as mec1-az2, experienced connectivity issues, affecting Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, Elastic Block Store volumes, database services, and network-related APIs.
“We can confirm that a local power issue has affected a single availability zone in the ME-CENTRAL-1 region,” the company said in a service update.
EC2 Network APIs See increased error rates
AWS reported increased error rates for several EC2 networking functions, including AllocateAddress and AssociateAddress.
While some services gradually recovered, customers initially experienced issues launching instances and managing network addresses.
“We are seeing significant signs of recovery,” AWS said later, adding that customers can now create and associate new network addresses in unaffected zones.
The company noted that it does not yet have an estimated time for full power restoration.
Customers are urged to use alternate zones and regions
AWS emphasized that other availability zones in the region remain operational. Customers running workloads in multiple zones were largely unaffected.
“For customers who can, we recommend using alternate availability zones or other AWS regions,” the company said.
Strikes in the UAE and Khamenei’s death escalate regional tensions
The outage comes as the UAE faces retaliatory missile and drone attacks from Iran following US and Israeli actions.
President Donald Trump also announced the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameneicalling it “justice not only for the Iranian people, but for all great Americans” and others who have died in conflicts involving Iran.
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