이란 미사일 공격으로 바레인·두바이 AWS 센터 마비

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 5 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Stay On the Cutting Edge: Get the Tom's Hardware Newsletter Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter Iranian strikes on AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai have disrupted services that the company declared multiple zones in the region to have “hard down” status, meaning the affected areas are completely unavailable. According to Big Technology , AWS issued an internal memo stating that operations in the two data centers have been disrupted and that it's working to migrate affected clients' workloads to other regions. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has conducted strikes against AWS sites in the Middle East since the start of the war in early March. Go deeper with TH Premium: AI and data centers Photonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneck The data center cooling state of play Massive AI data center buildouts are squeezing energy supplies Ultra Ethernet: The data center interconnection of tomorrow “These two regions continue to be impaired, and services should not expect to be operating with normal levels of redundancy and resiliency,” the internal memo said, according to Big Technology . “We are actively working to free and reserve as much capacity as possible in the region for customers, and services should be scaled to the minimal footprint required to support customer migration.” The AWS sites in the Middle East each have three compute zones, with both data centers reporting “hard down” and “impaired but functioning” zones. More importantly, the company said in its internal communications, “We do not have a timeline for when DXB and BAH will return to normal operations.” Article continues below Amazon isn’t the only tech company that the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran has directly hit. The Middle Eastern country has threatened to strike Nvidia, Microsoft, and others as early as the second week of March, after the alleged targeting of a Tehran bank that killed several employees. It has reiterated the threat at the start of April and even struck an Oracle data center later that week. However, while damage to data centers in the Middle East is concerning for the region, the global tech industry has bigger concerns. The regional war has disrupted the flow of oil and its derivatives, especially those that go through the Strait of Hormuz . These include aluminum, helium, and LNG — all of which are crucial in the semiconductor supply chain. And even if the war ends today, the damage to infrastructure could mean it takes months or even years for supplies to return to pre-war levels. Follow Tom's Hardware on Google News , or add us as a preferred source , to get our latest news, analysis, & reviews in your feeds. Stay On the Cutting Edge: Get the Tom's Hardware Newsletter Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors TOPICS See all comments (5) Jowi Morales Contributing Writer Jowi Morales is a tech enthusiast with years of experience working in the industry. He’s been writing with several tech publications since 2021, where he’s been interested in tech hardware and consumer electronics. 5 Comments Comment from the forums Seems a great way to draw the entire rest of the world into the conflict. Take down essential services, now everyone wants you taken out ASAP :P Reply People...let me remind you: Let's not get too political in this. Reply Back on topic, concentrating essential services for thousands of companies into hyperscale datacenters makes those datacenters into high-value targets, not just for kinetic weapons like drones and missiles but complicated digital supply chain, social engineering and cloud infrastructure hacking. In order to increase efficiency and convenience, many things we enjoy today are subject to multiple single-points-of-failure. In other words, even with the engineered redundancy and resilience, the current network of hyperscale datacenters concentrate so much into one point of failure, that focused attacks become a profitable undertaking for adversaries. Reply I was surprised, not shocked I guess, to learn in recent Patel briefings that FBI and other government agencies actually purchase information gathered and stored in like data centers. I believe the government used to subpoena or issue warrants for this information. Now the companies are more than ever complicit. Reply Dammmmm. How many million expensive Nvidia GPUs were hurt in this war??? This must be good news to Jen tho, right?? They will be buying new ones to replace them. Which means, more pain for gamers and the drought will continue while Jen is busy producing the expensive stuff.....UGH. Reply View All 5 Comments Show more comments