Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers
AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on.
TL;DR
- Amazon's UAE and Bahrain cloud regions suffered damage from Iranian drone strikes.
- Full recovery of normal operations is expected to take several months, possibly up to half a year.
- AWS has suspended billing operations in the affected regions.
- Customers are advised to migrate resources to other regions and use remote backups.
- Damage included impacts to EC2 server racks, flooding, and cooling system failures.
- Pure Data Centre Group is pausing Middle East investments due to the ongoing conflict.