Power cut at AWS data centre in UAE after objects strike facility, services hit for hours
Abu Dhabi: The power supply to Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS)’s data centre facilities in the United Arab Emirates was temporarily shut down after objects struck the premises on Sunday causing sparks and a fire.
According to Reuters, AWS said in a statement that at around 4:30 a.m. PST, one of its Availability Zones, mec1-az2, was impacted after objects hit the data centre. The company said that the impact led to sparks and a fire within the facility.
According to information on the company’s website, an Availability Zone consists of one or more connected physical data centres. It operates as a separate and isolated location within an AWS region.
Adding that restoration of connectivity in the affected zone would take several hours, AWS said the local fire department cut power to the facility while crews worked to extinguish the blaze.
Other Availability Zones in the UAE region remain operational and are functioning normally, the company said.
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Man held for blackmailing woman using explicit photos, videos
Bengaluru (PTI): A 46-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly blackmailing a woman using her explicit photos and videos to force her into a sexual relationship with him, police said on Saturday.
The accused, Haniyur Chandregowda, is a member of the Child Welfare Committee in Ramanagara, they said.
Obscene photos of several other women were also found on his mobile phone during examination, police said.
The case came to light after a 43-year-old woman, who works as a make-up artist, filed a complaint at the Rajarajeshwari Nagar police station on April 30, they said.
According to FIR, the woman met Chandregowda in 2021. He told her he was connected to TV serials and took her phone number on the pretext of offering make-up work. The woman had been living separately from her husband for about eight years.
The accused started visiting her house frequently and told her he was a lecturer with a good salary and promised to marry her and entered into a physical relationship with her, she alleged.
Police said Chandregowda later used private photos and videos of their intimate moments to threaten her. He allegedly warned that he would make them public if she did not agree to his demands, and continued the relationship under pressure.
The FIR also stated that in 2024, he rented a house using the woman's documents by falsely claiming to be her husband.
The woman also alleged that he used a fake ID claiming he was a Superintendent of Police to avoid paying toll fees.
She claimed that he had taken around Rs 5 lakh from her since 2021 and had not returned the money.
The FIR further stated that he added his name to the educational documents of the woman's daughter, pretending to be her husband.
Based on the complaint, a case under sections 69 (sexual intercourse by deceitful means) and 204 (impersonating a public servant) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita was registered. He was later arrested, a senior police officer said.
