AWS warns months-long repair timeline after drone strikes damage Middle East data centers
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Jeremy Hsu
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Summary
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that repairs to data centers in the UAE and Bahrain damaged by Iranian drone strikes will take several more months, meaning full recovery could take nearly half a year. The strikes occurred two months ago, and AWS has stopped billing Middle East cloud customers during the extended disruption.
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· 3 pulledAmazon’s cloud customers will need to wait several more months before the US tech company can repair war-damaged data centers and restore normal operations in the Middle East.
The announcement comes two months after Iranian drone strikes targeted three Amazon data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain—meaning that full recovery from the cloud disruption could take nearly half a year in all.
AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on.
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