Amazon to restore data center in six months following drone attack
Amazon's cloud service clients in the Middle East will face a lengthy wait for the recovery of data centers damaged by drone attacks, with full restoration expected to take nearly six months. The attacks targeted three data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, disrupting operations and preventing the company from supporting client applications. Amazon has advised customers to migrate resources to other cloud regions and utilize backup copies, while some clients, like Careem in Dubai, have managed to quickly resume operations by switching to different data centers. The extensive damage caused by the drone strikes is evident, with reports indicating that multiple EC2 server racks were rendered inoperable.
Amazon's cloud service clients in the Middle East will have to wait several more months for the restoration of data centers damaged by the war. Following drone attacks on three Amazon data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, full system recovery could take nearly half a year. This was reported by Ixbt.com xabar beradi.
Amazon announced that its cloud servers in the UAE and Bahrain were damaged as a result of the conflict in the Middle East and that it is unable to support client applications. The company stated that billing operations have been suspended until normal operating conditions are restored.
AWS has advised its clients to migrate resources to other cloud regions and utilize backup copies. Some clients, such as Dubai-based Careem, have managed to quickly resume operations by switching to other data centers.
The fact that full restoration of cloud services will take half a year indicates the scale of the damage caused by the drone attacks. According to internal documents, 14 EC2 server racks were destroyed in a single data center, with another 5 sustaining damage.
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