Amazon said drones struck three of its Middle East data centers, causing outages related to the “ongoing conflict in the Middle East<\/span>.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Drones directly struck two Amazon Web Services facilities in the United Arab Emirates, and a drone strike near an Amazon data center in Bahrain also damaged that facility, the company said in a\u00a0post\u00a0on Monday on AWS’s health dashboard.<\/p>\n “These strikes have caused structural damage, disrupted power delivery to our infrastructure, and in some cases required fire suppression activities that resulted in additional water damage,” AWS said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Operations in the Middle East remain “significantly impaired,” AWS said, noting that “customers are experiencing elevated error rates and degraded availability for services.”<\/p>\n Amazon said it is working to restore services and repair physical damage to its facilities, while cautioning that the “broader operating environment<\/span> in the Middle East remains unpredictable.”<\/p>\n The company encouraged its customers in the Middle East to back up data and consider migrating workloads to servers in other regions.\u00a0<\/p>\n Shares of Amazon declined $3.40, or 1.6%, to $204.99 in early trading.<\/p>\n