{"id":995931,"date":"2026-03-03T07:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995931"},"modified":"2026-03-03T07:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:40:17","slug":"amazons-cloud-unit-reports-fire-after-objects-hit-uae-data-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/03\/amazons-cloud-unit-reports-fire-after-objects-hit-uae-data-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s cloud unit reports fire after objects hit UAE data center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s cloud unit, AWS, said on Sunday that power to its data center in the United Arab Emirates was shut down temporarily after objects struck the facility, triggering sparks and a fire. <\/p>\n<p>The UAE \u200cis reeling \u2060from \u2060Iran&#8217;s retaliatory missile and drone strikes following U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran. The Iranian strikes hit airports, ports, and residential areas across the country and the wider Gulf. <\/p>\n<p>When Reuters asked AWS whether the incident at the data center \u2060was connected \u200cto the strikes, the company did not confirm or deny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s cloud unit, AWS, said on Sunday that power to its data center in the United Arab Emirates was shut down temporarily after objects struck the facility, triggering sparks and a fire. The UAE \u200cis reeling \u2060from \u2060Iran&#8217;s retaliatory missile and drone strikes following U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran. The Iranian strikes hit airports, ports, and residential areas across the country and the wider Gulf. When Reuters asked AWS whether the incident at the data center \u2060was connected \u200cto the strikes, the company did not confirm or deny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}