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Amazon cloud infrastructure in Bahrain, UAE damaged after Iran attacks

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(AWS) has stated that the company cannot restore access to certain cloud computing facilities in the Middle East following attacks by Iran earlier in the year. According to a status update published on Tuesday, reported that a cloud computing facility in Bahrain and one of its three data hosting zones in the UAE sustained damage during the conflict with Iran. The company is unable to restore access to these facilities.

AWS noted that the damage in Bahrain affected multiple Availability Zones and exceeded the capacity for which its regional systems were designed. “The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-Availability Zone services are designed to withstand,” the update stated.

An Availability Zone refers to a set of one or more data centres located within the same geographic region. Amazon Web Services uses these sets to keep services running if one of the locations ceases operations. The company stated that it was assisting Bahrain-based customers in restoring their operations in other regions and remained committed to customers in both countries.

Regarding the UAE, the company stated that it could not restore access to resources and data hosted exclusively in one Availability Zone, identified as mec1-az2. Recovery efforts are ongoing in the broader UAE region and in the other affected zones. According to AWS, the majority of affected customers had already restored operations in other regions by moving their workloads or restoring backups.

Iran struck Amazon facilities earlier this year

The company is reportedly replacing affected infrastructure in the United Arab Emirates and has stated that it will provide an update on restoring service in that area in the coming months. As for Bahrain, AWS has reportedly indicated that it will share more information in early 2027.

The disruption to the company’s services began in March, following US and Israeli attacks on Iran, which were followed by Iranian missile and drone attacks on Israel and Gulf states hosting US military bases. AWS reported at the time that two of its facilities in the United Arab Emirates had been directly hit, while a drone strike near one of its facilities in Bahrain caused physical damage to local infrastructure.

AWS said that after damage to the first availability zone in Bahrain in March, it began recommending its customers move their workloads to other regions. Most customers did so before the Bahrain region went offline due to an outage in a second availability zone in April, the company said.

In July, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed to have attacked and destroyed AWS’s central data infrastructure in Bahrain with cruise missiles; However, neither Amazon nor the authorities of Bahrain or the United States confirmed the attack against these facilities.

Amazon was not the only company attacked by Iran during the conflict. Tehran also claimed to have attacked an Oracle facility in April, although Oracle did not confirm the incident. Additionally, the IRGC threatened to attack up to 29 headquarters of regional technology companies in the Middle East, including those of Google, Nvidia, Microsoft and Palantir.

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