- AWS Middle East Central Availability Zone Hit by ‘Objects’
- The data center caught fire and the power had to be cut off
- Amazon is still waiting for the electrical connection before it can issue a solution
One of Amazon’s data centers based in the United Arab Emirates was affected by the ongoing conflict unfolding in the region, causing the Middle East Central Availability Zone mec1-az2 to experience some outages.
The local fire department was called to extinguish the fire, shutting off the power grid and generators to isolate the problem while it is resolved.
AWS is currently waiting for permission to restore power to the center, after which restoration could still take several hours.
Middle East attacks hit AWS data center
“Around 4:30 a.m. PST [on Sunday March 1]”One of our availability zones (mec1-az2) was hit by objects that hit the data center, creating sparks and fire,” the company said, without confirming or denying that the attack was related to the conflict in the region.
“The other AZs in the region are working normally,” however, customers have reported issues with EC2’s networking APIs. Although multiple zones within a region are designed to support each other, providing some type of redundancy in the event of a blackout, some systems may still be affected.
“Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon S3 are also experiencing significant error rates and high latencies,” Amazon’s service status page adds.
Full details at the time of writing show that only EC2 is “disrupted”, but six more services are “degraded” and 78 are “affected”, leaving only six “resolved”.
While a fix is released, AWS recommends that customers “fail over and back up any critical data to another AWS Region.”
The company currently posts regular updates to its service status page, but at least for now, it appears the outages are continuing.
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