India, March 3 -- Amazon said drones struck three of its Middle East data centers, causing service outages and significant disruption as the broader regional conflict intensifies.

In a post on its health dashboard Monday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) confirmed that two of its facilities in the United Arab Emirates were directly hit.

A separate drone strike near an AWS data center in Bahrain also caused damage to that site.

AWS added that operations in the Middle East remain "significantly impaired," with customers experiencing "elevated error rates and degraded availability for services."

Amazon advised customers in the region to back up data and consider migrating workloads to servers in other regions as a precaution.

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