Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers
Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers
亚马逊数据中心遭无人机袭击，修复工作恐需数月
Amazon’s cloud customers will need to wait several more months before the US tech company can repair war-damaged data centers and restore normal operations in the Middle East. The announcement comes two months after Iranian drone strikes targeted three Amazon data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain—meaning that full recovery from the cloud disruption could take nearly half a year in all.
亚马逊的云服务客户还需要再等待几个月，这家美国科技公司才能修复在中东地区受战争影响的数据中心并恢复正常运营。此前，伊朗无人机袭击了位于阿拉伯联合酋长国和巴林的三个亚马逊数据中心，此次公告发布距离袭击已过去两个月，这意味着云服务中断的全面恢复总共可能需要近半年时间。
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) dashboard posted an April 30 update describing how its UAE and Bahrain cloud regions “suffered damage as a result of the conflict in the Middle East” and are unable to support customer applications. The update also said that “relevant billing operations are currently suspended while we restore normal operations” in a process that “is expected to take several months.”
亚马逊云科技（AWS）仪表板在 4 月 30 日发布更新称，其阿联酋和巴林云区域“因中东冲突遭受损坏”，目前无法支持客户应用程序。更新还表示，“在恢复正常运营期间，相关计费操作已暂停”，这一过程“预计需要数月时间”。
That wording suggests Amazon will continue to avoid billing AWS customers in the affected regions—ME-CENTRAL-1 and ME-SOUTH-1—after it initially waived all usage-related charges for March 2026 at an estimated cost of $150 million. AWS also “strongly” recommended that customers migrate resources to other cloud regions and rely on remote backups to restore any “inaccessible resources.”
这一措辞表明，继此前免除 2026 年 3 月所有相关使用费用（估计成本为 1.5 亿美元）后，亚马逊将继续免除受影响区域（ME-CENTRAL-1 和 ME-SOUTH-1）AWS 客户的费用。AWS 还“强烈”建议客户将资源迁移到其他云区域，并依靠远程备份来恢复任何“无法访问的资源”。
Some customers, such as the Dubai-based super app Careem—which offers ride-hailing, household services, and food and grocery delivery—were able to get back online quickly after doing an overnight migration to other data center servers. The fact that AWS expects the full restoration of cloud services to potentially take half a year speaks to the damage inflicted by the Iranian drone strikes.
一些客户，例如总部位于迪拜的超级应用 Careem（提供网约车、家政服务以及食品和杂货配送），在连夜迁移到其他数据中心服务器后，得以迅速恢复在线。AWS 预计云服务的全面恢复可能需要半年时间，这足以说明伊朗无人机袭击造成的破坏程度。
Business Insider previously obtained an internal document that described damage to one data center knocking 14 EC2 cloud server racks offline, in addition to impacting five other server racks. EC2 represents the core AWS service for companies needing virtual servers and scalable computing capacity. The document also detailed flooding and water damage from the activation of fire suppression systems at one of the AWS data centers and mechanical failures in the facility’s cooling systems.
《商业内幕》（Business Insider）此前获得的一份内部文件显示，其中一个数据中心受损导致 14 个 EC2 云服务器机架离线，此外还有 5 个服务器机架受到影响。EC2 是 AWS 为需要虚拟服务器和可扩展计算能力的公司提供的核心服务。该文件还详细描述了其中一个 AWS 数据中心因火灾抑制系统启动而导致的洪水和水渍损坏，以及设施冷却系统的机械故障。
The latest AWS status update comes just after another data center developer, the London-based Pure Data Centre Group, said it will pause Middle East data center investments until the ongoing Middle East conflict subsides. The war began on February 28, with US and Israeli attacks on Iran triggering retaliatory Iranian strikes across the region. It has since settled into an uneasy ceasefire period with dueling naval blockades of the Strait of Hormuz shipping chokepoint as a growing economic and energy crisis spreads across the world.
在 AWS 发布最新状态更新之际，另一家数据中心开发商——总部位于伦敦的 Pure Data Centre Group 也表示，在当前中东冲突平息之前，将暂停在中东的数据中心投资。这场战争始于 2 月 28 日，当时美国和以色列对伊朗的袭击引发了伊朗在整个地区的报复性打击。此后，随着霍尔木兹海峡这一航运咽喉要道的对峙性海军封锁，以及全球范围内日益严重的经济和能源危机，局势进入了一个不安的停火期。