Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it was unable to restore access to resources and data in some Availability Zones in the Middle East after a data center was compromised during the confrontation between the United States, Israel and Iran. Report Register. However, the company intends to partially restore service to affected customers.
cloud giant ConfirmedAccess to data stored only in the Bahrain region (me-sout-1) cannot be restored. According to the company, the damage to the infrastructure affected multiple accessible areas simultaneously, resulting in more damage than the multi-zone system was prepared to withstand. After a “comprehensive assessment,” the company concluded that access to resources and data in the area could not be restored.
After the Bahrain mes1-az2 availability zone is opened attacked in marchAWS advised customers to move workloads to other regions. According to Amazon, most customers have done so so far new attack There was no damage to the second availability zone in April, causing an outage across the entire cloud region. The March attack also affected areas accessible to mec1-az2 and mec1-az3 in the UAE’s me-central-1 region, with mec1-az1 only partially affected. Now AWS point outwhich cannot restore access to resources and data in mec1-az2. It is worth noting that Iran threatened There is a strike at the Stargate data center under construction in the United Arab Emirates.
Photo credit: Stephen Radford/unsplash.com
AWS said it will continue to work to restore the resources of mec1-az1 and mec1-az3. According to the company, most customers are able to restore operations in AWS regions by using backups or replicating remaining available data. The company emphasized that its support team will still provide assistance to customers to assist in migrating applications and workloads. As for the me-south-1 region, the company promised to provide new information on its fate in early 2027. AWS may not want to reinstate it as Iran announced over summer hit again A data center in Bahrain.
In AWS terminology, a region is a geographic area that contains multiple independent Availability Zones (AZs), each consisting of one or more independent data centers with independent power, cooling, and networking infrastructure. AWS recommends distributing applications and resources across multiple regions to avoid outages in a single region. But this approach won’t prevent the entire region from massive damage.
AWS and some other technology companies advise customers to recover what resources they can after the first attack on their data centers and replicate them in other regions, preferably Europe, rather than wait until services are restored in the Middle East. According to Amazon, the company’s capital expenditures should reach 2026 $220 billionmainly used in new infrastructure construction, including. Data centers for the United States and elsewhere.
source:
