The US-based tech giant has temporarily shut down the operation at its cloud unit at UAE after ‘Objects hit’ at data centre facility. The company has confirmed that at approximately 4:30 AM PST on 1st March “Object struck” the facility in availability zone mec1-az2 which created a spark and turned into fire. The UAE fire department cut power into the building.
The AWS issued a statement in which they confirmed that the other zones remain operational, and restoration will take several hours. The health dashboard of the company shows the service at the Datacenter ‘Disrupted’. The dashboard further said that the following AWS services have been affected by this issue: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon Relational Database Service.
Amazon Web Service stated that they are working to restore full service and connectivity as soon as possible. However, the company has not shared any specific timelines. This portrays how critical data centres are in the modern world. From businesses to government and online platforms everyone depends on cloud. Even a temporary outage in one zone can affect multiple services.
While the situation us seems to be under control, the event shows how physical disruption whether it occurs accidental or its caused by larger geopolitical tensions, it can impact global technology network
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