- AWS Central Availability Zone in the Middle East hit by ‘objects’
- Data center caught fire and had to be cut off from power
- Amazon is still waiting for power to connect before it can release a fix
One of Amazon’s UAE-based data centers has been hit in the region’s ongoing conflict, causing outages in the mec1-az2 Central East availability zone.
Local firefighters were called to extinguish the fire, shutting off mains power and generators to isolate the problem pending a resolution.
AWS is currently waiting for permission to restore power to the center, after which restoration could still take several hours.
Middle East strikes 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 a fire,” the company said, neither confirming nor denying that the strike was related to the conflict in the region.
“Other AZs in the region are functioning normally,” but customers have reported issues with EC2 network APIs. Although multiple zones within a region are designed to support each other, providing some sort of redundancy in the event of a power outage, some systems may still be affected.
“Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon S3 also experience 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 other services are “degraded” and 78 are “impacted”, leaving only six “resolved”.
While a patch is released, AWS recommends that customers “failover and back up all critical data to another AWS Region.”
The company currently posts regular updates on its page about the status of its services, but for now at least, it appears that the disruptions are continuing.
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