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AWS reports outage as UAE data centre struck amid Middle East war
short by Vibha Anand / on Monday, 2 March, 2026
Amazon’s cloud computing facilities in the Middle East faced connectivity and power issues on Monday after unidentified 'objects' struck its data centre in the UAE, triggering a fire. According to AWS's service health page, the company anticipates a recovery period of at least one day. It is asking customers to rely ​on its services ​in other regions in the meantime.