Two of Amazon’s three AWS Middle East cloud availability zones remain disrupted after a fire at a datacentre in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday.

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On its health status dashboard, Amazon says a facility in one zone was “impacted by objects that struck the datacentre, creating sparks and fire” at around 4:30 am PST (12.30 pm GMT) on Sunday. Later it said that two availability zones had been affected by power outages.

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The company continues: “We strongly advise customers to update their applications to ingest S3 data to an alternate AWS Region. As soon as practically possible, we will begin the restoration of our two availability zones which will include a careful assessment of data health and any repair of storage if necessary.”

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Amazon says it working to route requests away from the affected availability zones, recommending customers use alternative zones or AWS regions while it seeks to restore power.

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Amazon does not mention the underlying cause of the fire, but it coincides with an attack on Iran by the US and Israel and retaliatory missile and drone barrages by Iran against their allies, including UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Lebanon, Kuwait, Iraq and Jordan.