Iranian strikes overwhelmed regional redundancy in Bahrain and left one UAE Availability Zone inaccessible.
In an update to its AWS Health Dashboard, the cloud giant confirmed that anything hosted exclusively in its Bahrain Region remains inaccessible.
The company said most did so before further attacks disrupted a second Availability Zone in April and rendered the entire Region unavailable.
AWS says it continues to work on recovering resources in the Region, including some hosted in the other affected Availability Zones.
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Amazon Web Services says it is unable to restore access to resources and data in some of its Availability Zones in the Middle East after datacenters were damaged during.
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Iranian strikes overwhelmed regional redundancy in Bahrain and left one UAE Availability Zone inaccessible.
Amazon Web Services says it is unable to restore access to resources and data in some of its Availability Zones in the Middle East after datacenters were damaged during the US war with Iran.
In an update to its AWS Health Dashboard, the cloud giant confirmed that anything hosted exclusively in its Bahrain Region remains inaccessible.
After the first Bahrain Availability Zone was damaged in March, AWS advised customers to migrate their workloads to other Regions. The company said most did so before further attacks disrupted a second Availability Zone in April and rendered the entire Region unavailable.
AWS has reached a similar conclusion about one Availability Zone in the United Arab Emirates.
Two AWS facilities in the country were hit by drones back in March as Iran retaliated against US-Israeli strikes on its territory.
AWS says it continues to work on recovering resources in the Region, including some hosted in the other affected Availability Zones.
In AWS terminology, a Region is a geographic area containing multiple isolated Availability Zones.
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