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Today, we look at the AWS outage in the UAE.
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The Big Sip
The take: The first major cloud provider to catch fire from what was almost certainly a missile or drone just repriced every cloud investment in the Gulf.
What happened: Amazon Web Services (AWS) shut its UAE data centre on Sunday after "objects" struck the facility and started a fire (during Iran's retaliatory missile barrage across the Gulf).
Why it matters: Microsoft has $15.2 billion committed to UAE data centres through 2029, and every expansion plan in the region just picked up a risk premium that didn't exist on Friday.
What to watch: Whether insurers reprice Gulf data centre coverage this week, and whether the Strait of Hormuz reopens before Monday's open.
AWS described the incident as a "localised power issue." The Burj Al Arab was also on fire.
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