An armed man has been fatally shot by police after he allegedly broke into a unit block and attacked two women in the Sydney suburb of Potts Point this morning.

Police were called to a unit complex on St Neot Avenue about 10.50am following reports a man armed with a knife had broken into the building.

Officers say after the man was confronted, he lunged at them with a knife, and a Taser was fired at him.

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Police said the Taser was "ineffective", and a single round was fired at the man. He was later pronounced dead.

Neighbours told 9News the man attempted to jump out of the window of the third floor of the unit to evade authorities.

Assistant Commissioner Peter McKenna said police believe the two women, aged 48 and 56, were from two different apartment units.

At this stage of the investigation, police do not believe either woman knew the man.

"Both those females have head and facial injuries," he said.

"Both have been taken to hospital, one with more significant injuries than the other, but both are believed not to be life-threatening."

One of the women had injuries suspected to be from a stabbing, while the other suffered blunt force trauma.

Both suffered wounds to their heads and faces and have been taken to St Vincent's Hospital in a stable condition.

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McKenna said the responding officers were "pretty traumatised" following the incident.

"They don't come to work to be confronted by this type of thing or to take a life.

"That's the last thing we want to do.

"We will thoroughly investigate this and get to the bottom of why and how [the shooting] occurred."

A critical incident has been declared.

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Emergency services were called about 3.15pm and two people were flown to hospital.

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Several Amazon Web Services are down in the Middle East after three data centres were damaged in drone strikes.

The company has issued an alert for disruptions to multiple services in the United Arab Emirates and in Bahrain.

"Due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, both affected regions have experienced physical impacts to infrastructure as a result of drone strikes," Amazon Web Services said.

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"In the UAE, two of our facilities were directly struck, while in Bahrain, a drone strike in close proximity to one of our facilities caused physical impacts to our infrastructure.

"These strikes have caused structural damage, disrupted power delivery to our infrastructure, and in some cases required fire suppression activities that resulted in additional water damage."

It has led to error rates in Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon RDS, and the AWS Management Console and CLI services in both regions.

The issue is not affecting services outside the UAE and Bahrain. 

Amazon is working with local authorities to restore full service, but said it expects this to take some time due to the extent of the damage and ongoing strikes in the Middle East.

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It is also working to restore services that do not require the data centres to be repaired. 

Amazon advised customers with workloads in the Middle East to back up their data and migrate their workloads to alternative regions, like Australia and the wider Asia Pacific, the US or Europe.

"Even as we work to restore these facilities, the ongoing conflict in the region means that the broader operating environment in the Middle East remains unpredictable," the company said.

Amazon has an estimated 30 per cent of the global cloud market and powers more than four million businesses worldwide. 

Iran has issued strikes at US military bases in the UAE and Bahrain as it retaliates against President Donald Trump's fatal attack on the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei.

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A man has been shot dead by police at his home in Brisbane.

Police were called to the home on Thurston Street in Tingalpa for a welfare check at 9am today.

As officers attempted to negotiate, the 21-year-old man made threats to police while armed with a knife and was shot.

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Despite receiving immediate medical assistance, he died at the scene.

"This is a devastating incident," Acting Chief Superintendent Heath McQueen said.

"My thoughts are with all the officers involved, emergency services in attendance and the family of the man involved in this incident today.

"These incidents are often dynamic in nature and split-second decisions need to be made in relation to those incidents.

"I'm confident that the use of force was appropriate given the circumstances, however, this will still be investigated by Ethical Standards Command with oversight from the CCC."

One officer sustained a minor injury.

The death will be investigated by the Ethical Standards Command on behalf of the State Coroner, with oversight from the Crime and Corruption Commission.

The incident came just hours before two similar shootings in New South Wales.

An armed man was shot dead by police officers in the Sydney suburb of Potts Point after allegedly attacking two women at 10.50am, while in Newcastle a wanted man was seriously injured when he was shot by police during an attempt to arrest him.

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