United Kingdom, March 4 -- Amazon Web Services has said drone strikes have hit three of its cloud computing facilities in the Middle East, causing fires, structural damage and outages after US and Israeli military strikes on Iran at the weekend.

The incidents happened on Sunday (01.03.26) morning, when Amazon's cloud division reported that "objects" had struck one of its data centres in the United Arab Emirates, creating "sparks and fire".

The company has also said it was investigating power and connectivity problems at a facility in Bahrain and confirmed the disruption had been caused by drone strikes.

Amazon Web Services - the world's largest cloud computing provider - said two of its facilities in the UAE were hit directly, while a ...