Amazon reports drone strikes hit three Middle East AWS data centers, sparking outages

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Drones struck three AWS data centers in the UAE and near Bahrain, causing structural damage, power disruption, and water damage from fire suppression; AWS says operations in the Middle East are significantly impaired with elevated error rates, and Amazon is working to restore services while advising customers to back up data and consider migrating workloads to other regions.
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