Drone Strikes Damage Amazon Data Centers in the UAE and Bahrain

Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit warned of prolonged disruptions to its services after revealing that drone strikes damaged three of its data centers in the Middle East in recent days.

Amazon Web Services Inc.said for the first time that drones had “directly struck” two facilities in the UAE. In Bahrain, a drone strike near another facility damaged infrastructure, it said.

“We are working to restore full service availability as quickly as possible, though we expect recovery to be prolonged given the nature of the physical damage involved,” the company said in a post. AWS customers are experiencing elevated ...