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AWS Datacenter Lit Ablaze by “Objects” in UAE, Amid Other Outages in Region at War (fuelarc.com)
submitted 13 hours ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Amazon says “objects” struck a data center in its UAE region (ME-CENTRAL-1), throwing sparks and starting a fire. Almost certainly due to the ongoing war.

Separately, another data center is offline due to a "localized power issue."

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[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 hours ago

I’ll do what the US and Israel have done multiple times now and just claim this was done by a friendly fire US missile