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BumRushDaShow

(168,372 posts) Tue Mar 3, 2026, 01:04 PM 23 hrs ago

Amazon says drones hit 3 of its Middle East data centers amid Iran conflict

Source: CBS News

Updated on: March 3, 2026 / 10:14 AM EST / CBS News

Amazon said drones struck three of its Middle East data centers, causing outages related to the "ongoing conflict in the Middle East."

Drones directly struck two Amazon Web Services facilities in the United Arab Emirates, and a drone strike near an Amazon data center in Bahrain also damaged that facility, the company said in a post on Monday on AWS's health dashboard.

"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.

Operations in the Middle East remain "significantly impaired," AWS said, noting that "customers are experiencing elevated error rates and degraded availability for services."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-drone-strike-aws-data-center-uae-bahrain-iran/

These cloud service providers usually mirror their data elsewhere but...

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Amazon says drones hit 3 of its Middle East data centers amid Iran conflict (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 23 hrs ago OP

Amazon will demand that the US taxpayer rebuild the centers. Irish_Dem 23 hrs ago #1

We ALL pay for the madness of King Donald, wagging the dog. usonian 23 hrs ago #2

Doesn't DoD use AWS? Deminpenn 22 hrs ago #3

A LOT of agencies use them. BumRushDaShow 21 hrs ago #5

I'd think those AWS data centers in Deminpenn 18 hrs ago #6

Sure, although I would think they would be using encrypted data spaces, possibly not in certain locations BumRushDaShow 17 hrs ago #7

Exit from COLO Cloud computing in 3 2 1... OC375 22 hrs ago #4

Irish_Dem

(80,751 posts)

1. Amazon will demand that the US taxpayer rebuild the centers.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2026, 01:06 PM

23 hrs ago

usonian

(24,624 posts)

2. We ALL pay for the madness of King Donald, wagging the dog.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2026, 01:10 PM

23 hrs ago

Big tech ass kissers!!

FAFO

Looks like it's time for new FAFO flags!!!
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219770873

(may be AI-created. It's not mine, anyway)

Deminpenn

(17,390 posts)

3. Doesn't DoD use AWS?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2026, 01:32 PM

22 hrs ago

BumRushDaShow

(168,372 posts)

5. A LOT of agencies use them.

Reply to Deminpenn (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 3, 2026, 02:37 PM

21 hrs ago

But they have datacenters all over the damn world (and in the U.S.).

Deminpenn

(17,390 posts)

6. I'd think those AWS data centers in

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 3, 2026, 05:47 PM

18 hrs ago

the ME are fairly important to US military command and control ops in the area.

BumRushDaShow

(168,372 posts)

7. Sure, although I would think they would be using encrypted data spaces, possibly not in certain locations

Reply to Deminpenn (Reply #6)

Tue Mar 3, 2026, 06:18 PM

17 hrs ago

But they are also used for Amazon's own HUGE shopping network too. All kinds of retail stuff and transactions going on using their cloud.

OC375

(677 posts)

4. Exit from COLO Cloud computing in 3 2 1...

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2026, 01:52 PM

22 hrs ago

Why take out one company when you can take down hundreds. Mirroring is nice, but there are cold, warm and hot mirroring. Each has pluses and minuses and it can still take hours to get things right as you roll databases forward, pull backups down from yet another cloud (like every single customer of that data center is doing), etc...

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