I missed this yesterday, but AWS Middle East (UAE) (me-central-1) has been having issues due to the war.

[mnordhoff@infosec.exchange]

I missed this yesterday, but AWS Middle East (UAE) (me-central-1) has been having issues due to the war.

"At around 4:30 AM PST [2026-03-01], one of our Availability Zones (mec1-az2) was impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire. The fire department shut off power to the facility and generators as they worked to put out the fire."

"Mar 01 10:46 PM PST We can confirm that a localized power issue has affected another Availability Zone in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region (mec1-az3)."

This might be the first time AWS has ever had separate, serious outages affecting multiple AZs simultaneously, if you exclude the many many outages where a region-level service like S3 goes down due to a software issue.

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