- AWS UAE data center hit by “objects … creating sparks and fire”
- The data center caught fire and had to have the power cut off before fi
- Amazon says there are some signs of improvement
One of Amazon’s UAE-based data centers has been affected by the ongoing conflict unfolding in the region, causing the central mec1-az2 availability zone in the Middle East to experience some outages.
The local fire department was called after “objects” hit a data center, causing “sparks and fire” that shut down the power grid and generators to isolate the problem as a solution unfolds.
AWS is currently awaiting permission to restore power to the center, after which the restoration could still take several hours.
Problems hit the AWS data center
“Around 4:30 AM PST [on Sunday March 1]one of our availability zones (mec1-az2) was affected by objects that hit the data center and created sparks and fire,” the company said, not confirming that they did not deny that the strike was related to the conflict in the region.
“The other AZs in the region are working normally,” but customers have reported issues with EC2 network APIs. Although multiple zones within a region are designed to support each other, providing some form of redundancy in the event of a blackout, some systems may still be affected.
“Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon S3 are also experiencing significant failure rates and elevated latencies,” Amazon’s service page adds.
All details at the time of writing show only EC2 as being ‘disrupted’, but six additional services are ‘degraded’ and 78 are ‘impacted’, leaving just six ‘resolved’.
While a fix is being issued, AWS recommends that customers “fail over and back up all critical data to another AWS region.”
The company is currently issuing regular updates on its service health page, but at least for now it looks like the disruptions will continue.
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