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Amazon's AWS reports outage after UAE data centre struck by 'objects'

By Shubham Kalia and Aditya Soni

Mar 3 2026 6:39AM

Power ⁠and connectivity issues.

Amazon's AWS reports outage after UAE data centre struck by 'objects'

Amazon's cloud-computing facilities in the Middle East ⁠faced power ⁠and connectivity issues on Monday after unidentified "objects" struck its data centre in the United Arab Emirates. The objects had triggered a fire on Sunday that forced authorities to eventually cut power to two ...

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