Amazon Cloud suffers outage after ‘objects’ hit UAE data centre

Posted under: Web Technology
Date: 2026-03-02
AWS UAE Data Center Outage After Fire Incident | Justo Global

Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a significant outage after unidentified objects struck its data center in the UAE, igniting a fire around 4:30 PM local time. The fire department shut off power while they extinguished the blaze. AWS stated, “One of our Availability Zones was impacted…,” but confirmed that other data centers remained unaffected. The company has not provided a timeline for restoring power and is rerouting traffic to ensure service continuity.