Iranian drone strikes hit three AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain — Iran confirms it targeted Amazon cloud infrastructure

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stated it targeted the Bahrain facility specifically because AWS hosts U.S. military ...
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Amazon’s AWS suffers outages in Bahrain, UAE amid Iranian strikes

Amazon Web Services suffered outages in Bahrain and the UAE after power failures and damage at data centres, as Iranian ...

AWS-hosted tech providers urge Middle East customers to fail over now

Snowflake, Red Hat, and others warn customers not to wait around for the cloud to recover After aerial strikes damaged AWS datacenters in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, Snowflake, Red Hat, and ...
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AWS Middle East outage: a reminder not to rely on cloud as disaster recovery plan

Companies are advised to carefully examine their DR plans and SLAs so they're not caught off-guard by major events like this.
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Drone Strikes Hit AWS Data Centers 'Due To' Middle East Conflict, Amazon Confirms

AWS data centers hit by drone strikes in the Middle East causing Amazon EC2 and S3 services disruption in UAE as US and Iran ...
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AWS launches second secret cloud region for defense, intel customers

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced the launch of a second cloud computing region built specifically to host the federal government’s secret classified information. The AWS Secret-West Region is ...