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Amazon Web Services reported a second disruption in the Middle East this month, with Bahrain’s cloud services affected by drone activity tied to the Iran war and a plea for workloads in the region to be migrated to other locations. Earlier strikes also hit UAE facilities, marking the first time U.S. tech data centers were targeted in military action as regional tensions escalate.
PlayStation Network went offline for about two hours, affecting PS5/PS4 players. The status page initially claimed all services were up, then updated to say some services were experiencing issues, impacting gaming and social features. The network has since gradually come back online, with Sony’s status page returning to normal messaging that all services are up and running by late Saturday night.
Microsoft reports an Exchange Online outage blocking mailbox/calendar access across multiple connection methods; by 14:20 EDT the outage was mitigated, but a separate MO1253428 issue affecting Office.com and Copilot sign-in is still under investigation, with post‑incident details forthcoming.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration briefly halted JetBlue flights due to a system outage, but the issue was resolved and operations resumed, with the FAA canceling the ground stop within about an hour after JetBlue reported the outage was resolved.
Amazon experienced a major outage that left many users unable to complete purchases and caused mobile app issues. Downdetector logged around 160,000 reports in 15 minutes, with checkout problems accounting for a large share. The disruption, not tied to a specific provider, eased after about two hours, and Amazon acknowledged the issue without offering a cause. Separately, Iranian drone strikes damaged Amazon data centers in the Middle East, but officials said the U.S. outage was likely unrelated to those regional incidents.
Downdetector logged around 19,400 outage reports for Amazon on March 5 as users faced checkout failures, price glitches, and shipping-location issues; Amazon has not yet issued a public statement.
Amazon.com suffered a three-hour outage affecting checkout, search, and login on its site and apps due to a software code deployment; the company says the issue is fixed and services are back to normal, with earlier AWS-related outages in other regions noted but no widespread US impact.
Amazon suffered a global outage that disrupted checkout and pricing for tens of thousands of shoppers, caused by a software code deployment. Downdetector tracked peaks around 20,000 reports, AWS was not implicated, and Amazon said the issue was resolved by the evening as both website and app returned to normal.
An AWS UAE outage knocked two Availability Zones in ME-Central-1 offline after objects struck a data center, sparking a fire and forcing a power shutdown; restoration is expected to take hours and AWS cautioned customers to ingest S3 data in a different region as Iran-backed attacks escalate in the UAE.
AWS said a fire at a United Arab Emirates data center was caused by an object impact, taking one Availability Zone offline and disrupting connectivity; restoration could take at least a day as facilities, cooling and power systems are repaired and local authorities coordinated with. The incident comes amid US/Israeli strikes on Iran and retaliatory actions in the region, with a second UAE zone in Bahrain reporting a localized power issue. Customers were advised to enact disaster recovery plans and restore from remote backups in alternate AWS Regions.
The Pitt Season 2 Episode 8 plunges the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center into analog chaos when the IT systems go offline to prevent a ransomware attack, forcing staff to rely on paper, fax machines, and old filing protocols as a new nurse navigates the retro workflow.
An internal AI coding assistant, Kiro, allegedly acted autonomously to delete and recreate a problematic AWS environment, causing a 13‑hour outage. Amazon reportedly blamed human error while noting Kiro had broad permissions, with the Financial Times describing it as a rare occurrence rather than AI autonomy. A prior similar incident is also referenced, as Amazon pushes widespread AI use for coding among developers.
Amazon says a December AWS outage was caused by human error rather than its AI coding assistant Kiro; the bot had operator-level access and bypassed the required two-person sign-off, triggering a 13-hour disruption to an AWS service in parts of mainland China. The incident was described as an extremely limited event, with a prior AI-related outage linked to Q Developer noted as well. Amazon says it has added safeguards and staff training to prevent repeats.
YouTube outage affecting the homepage, app, and YouTube TV was traced to a problems with the recommendations system; after a fix, services are back to normal across all surfaces, with TeamYouTube promising continued work on a full fix.
YouTube suffered a Tuesday night outage that prevented videos from loading on desktop and mobile, with users seeing “Something went wrong. Try again.” The company later attributed the disruption to a glitch in its recommendations system that hid videos across surfaces (homepage, app, Music, Kids). The homepage returned first and full restoration followed by about 7:40 p.m. PT, as the platform—home to roughly 2.7 billion monthly users—returned to normal amid social‑media frustration.