Overview
- AWS reported that unidentified objects struck a United Arab Emirates facility, causing a fire that led firefighters to cut power and triggered electrical and connectivity failures.
- The company said restoring connectivity would take hours and at least a day was likely needed to repair power, cooling and facilities.
- AWS’s status page showed related service disruptions extending to Bahrain alongside the UAE incidents.
- Customer impacts included financial services, with Commercial Bank of Abu Dhabi reporting outages to digital platforms and its mobile app due to a regional IT interruption.
- AWS has not confirmed any link to regional military strikes that occurred the same day, while advising customers to enable backups and shift workloads to unaffected regions as analysts highlight concentration risk and limited multi‑region failover adoption.