Amazon said on Tuesday that its cloud regions in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain suffered damage from conflict in the Middle East and cannot currently support customer applications. The damage followed Iranian drone strikes that targeted three Amazon data centers in the two countries. [1]
An AWS dashboard update said the sites “suffered damage as a result of the conflict in the Middle East” and that “relevant billing operations are currently suspended while we restore normal operations.” Amazon said restoring normal service “is expected to take several months.” [1]
AWS said billing operations for the affected regions remain suspended while recovery work continues. The company also said it strongly recommended that customers move resources to other cloud regions and use remote backups to recover inaccessible systems. [1]
Amazon had already waived all usage-related charges for March 2026 for affected customers, at an estimated cost of $150 million. Some customers, including Dubai-based Careem, returned online quickly after an overnight migration to other data center servers. [1]
AWS posted an update on April 30 saying the UAE and Bahrain regions had been damaged and that recovery would take several months. A report dated May 5 said full recovery from the cloud disruption could take nearly half a year overall, with repairs still expected to take several more months. [1]
