Amazon Web Services (AMZN) on Monday said that ongoing Middle East conflict has physically damaged infrastructure in its UAE and Bahrain regions after drone strikes hit or struck near multiple facilities, causing structural damage and power disruptions.
The company said in some cases it required fire suppression activities that resulted in additional water damage.
“In the ME-CENTRAL-1 (UAE) Region, two of our three Availability Zones (mec1-az2 and mec1-az3) remain significantly impaired,” the company said in a status update. The third Availability Zone (mec1-az1) continues to operate normally, though some services have experienced indirect impact due to dependencies on the affected zones.
“In the ME-SOUTH-1 (Bahrain) Region, one facility has been impacted. Across both regions, customers are experiencing elevated error rates and degraded availability for services including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon RDS, and the AWS Management Console and CLI.”
AWS said it was working to restore full-service availability as quickly as possible, though it expects recovery to be prolonged given the nature of the physical damage involved.