Amazon.com's (AMZN.US) cloud service division, AWS, experienced a service disruption after its data center in the United Arab Emirates was struck by an unidentified object, sparking a fire. While it remains uncertain if the incident is connected to U.S.-Iran conflicts, the fire occurred on the same day Iran launched missiles at the UAE in retaliation for attacks that resulted in the deaths of its Supreme Leader Khamenei and other senior officials. According to an announcement on the AWS health status dashboard, the incident happened around 4:30 PM Dubai time on Sunday. Firefighters cut off power and generator electricity to the facility during extinguishing efforts. The company stated: "One of our availability zones... was impacted by a fire sparked by an object hitting the data center." Here, "availability zone" refers to a regional data center cluster. Iran's retaliatory actions have spread across the Middle East, with multiple missile and drone attacks targeting U.S. bases and allies, including in the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. AWS indicated it cannot currently estimate when power will be restored to the affected data center and emphasized that other data center clusters remain unaffected, with traffic from the region being rerouted to other facilities. The company operates 123 such data center clusters across 39 global regions.