GEO Group Inc conflict involving technology giant Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN.US) UAE data center attacked and caught fire, global cloud service supply chain under pressure.

Notice that the cloud service (AWS) of Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN.US) located in a data center in the United Arab Emirates was hit by an unknown object causing a fire and service interruption. While it is not certain if this event is related to the US-Iran conflict, on the day of the fire, Iran had just launched missiles at the UAE in retaliation for the US attack that killed the Supreme Leader Soleimani and other high-ranking officials. According to an announcement on the AWS Health Dashboard, the incident occurred at around 4:30 pm Dubai time on Sunday, with the fire department cutting off the facility's power and generator power during the firefighting process. A company statement noted, "One of our availability zones... was affected by a fire caused by sparks from an object hitting the data center." Here, "availability zone" refers to a regional cluster of data centers. Iran's retaliation has spread to various parts of the Middle East, with multiple rounds of missile and drone attacks targeting US bases and allies in countries such as the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. AWS stated that it is currently unable to estimate the time for the affected data center's power restoration, but emphasized that other data center clusters are unaffected and traffic has been routed to other data centers in the region. The company operates 123 such data center clusters in 39 regions worldwide.