Drone Strikes Cripple AWS Data Centers Across the Middle East

**Executive Summary:** A sequence of drone strikes targeted AWS data centers in the Middle East—notably MEC1 in the UAE and MES1 in Bahrain—causing severe structural damage, total power loss in affected availability zones, automated fire suppression activations, and widespread service outages across several countries; Amazon advised customers to back up data and consider migrating workloads as many services were disrupted and only one AZ in MEC1 remained operational.