Engineering postmortems, with sources
Follow the timeline of real engineering failures: what broke, how teams detected it, how they recovered, and what they changed afterward. Timeline claims link to their sources.
AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region (ME-SOUTH-1) · 6 timeline events
A facility in AWS’s Bahrain region suffered physical impact and power disruption. AWS later said the region was unavailable and it could not restore resources and data that had not been migrated.
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Physical damage and power loss impaired two availability zones in AWS’s UAE region. AWS reported cascading errors in services including S3, DynamoDB, EC2, Lambda, and RDS; recovery remains incomplete.
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