Updated Monday, March 2, 11:20 a.m. with further information on AWS availability.
Amazon Web Services on Monday morning told customers to move important data out of its Middle East zone, ME-CENTRAL-1, after data and connectivity issues linked to what is now a two-front war in Iran and Lebanon.
Amazon said one of its availability zones, mec1-az2 in Dubai, "was impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire." It said the facility's power as well as generators had been shut off by the local fire department.
AWS did not confirm or deny to Reuters on Sunday evening whether the damage was caused by fall out from retaliatory strikes against the UAE by Iran and Lebanon.
Another availability zone in the region has lost power, while a third has connectivity issues.
With two zones offline, AWS said customers were "seeing high failure rates for data ingest and egress" in S3. AWS management console and CLI are also seeing disruptions.
