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5 March 2026, 14:41
2026-03-05
Amazon data centers in the UAE failed a real-world stress test after a drone attack. What conclusions should Ukrainian businesses draw — De Novo analysis
After an Iranian drone attack , two large Amazon data centers in the UAE were damaged and were shut down indefinitely. Customers were also affected, including the region's four largest banks. This incident proves that even technology companies cannot completely eliminate risks. In addition, it is worth remembering that clouds are not something "virtual" - any cloud service always runs on physical infrastructure, that is, in specific data centers. This story once again reminds us of the need for a comprehensive approach to protecting data in the cloud.
After an Iranian drone attack , two large Amazon data centers in the UAE were damaged and were shut down indefinitely. Customers were also affected, including the region's four largest banks. This incident proves that even technology companies cannot completely eliminate risks. In addition, it is worth remembering that clouds are not something "virtual" - any cloud service always runs on physical infrastructure, that is, in specific data centers. This story once again reminds us of the need for a comprehensive approach to protecting data in the cloud.
For the Ukrainian IT market, the discussion about the reliability of data centers has a special context, say the national cloud provider De Novo. For many years, corporate clients have often assumed that global hyperscalers are definitely more reliable than local providers.
The reality turned out to be much more complicated. Ukraine's digital infrastructure, which has been under incredible pressure due to massive shelling of the country's energy system, power outages, and constant missile and drone attacks, continues to operate stably. Instead, several UAVs in the Middle East "laid" an entire cloud region, causing problems for many customers.
Distributed infrastructure model
"Any provider looks great until it comes to a real stress test. AWS data centers collapsed under the blows, as any other data center in the world would collapse. At this point, the discussion about the inferiority of Ukrainian data centers can be considered closed," Maksym Ageev, CEO of De Novo, comments on the event.
The experience of recent years has effectively turned Ukraine into a unique testing ground for cloud infrastructure resilience. Systems operating in such conditions actually undergo a much more complex stress test than in most other regions of the world.
One of the consequences of this situation is that Ukrainian cloud services are increasingly using a distributed infrastructure model. Where loads and data are distributed between several geographically distant clouds (in particular, in the EU). Such an architecture allows you to reduce dependence on one geographical region and increase the overall stability of systems.
The main thing is architecture.
Therefore, no provider in the world can guarantee service continuity or data availability if the customer's IT system architecture itself does not provide for redundancy or disaster resilience. And here it is worth remembering that in fact the responsibility for the stability of the IT landscape lies not only with the data center or cloud, but also with the user's IT management.
It is the company's CIO or CTO who must answer the key questions:
Does the company have a Business Continuity Plan?
where and how data backups are stored;
what does the Disaster Recovery architecture look like?
how long it takes to restore critical systems in the event of an accident.
De Novo emphasizes that the main thing is that critical data and calculations should not depend on a single data center or provider. The infrastructure should be distributed across multiple sites, which will allow work to continue even in the event of serious incidents.
That is why a modern IT strategy is not just about choosing a cloud provider. It largely depends on the overall IT architecture that allows a business to operate even if one of the data centers stops working. In general, the incident in the Middle East only once again showed that digital infrastructure is now a critical asset at the state level, and its resilience is a matter of management decisions, not just technology.
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