Amazon Web Services said it cannot restore access to multiple cloud-computing facilities in Bahrain and to one availability zone in the United Arab Emirates more than six months after drone strikes in March damaged the sites. After assessing the harm, AWS concluded the damage exceeded the infrastructure’s design tolerances and declared resources and data hosted exclusively in those locations unrecoverable. Two UAE data centers were directly struck and a Bahrain site was hit nearby; AWS has advised customers to migrate workloads to other regions, warned of continuing operational instability in the Middle East, and posted its first public update on the incidents since April. The company is still working to recover two other affected UAE zones and plans to provide further UAE updates “in the coming months” and information for Bahrain users in early 2027.
The strikes, claimed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - which said it targeted the Bahrain facility because of Amazon’s support for the U.S. military - have prompted fresh questions about the security model for major data-center investments in the Gulf. Ambitious projects tied to the AI boom, including the UAE’s planned Stargate campus backed by OpenAI, Nvidia, Oracle and Cisco, are being reconsidered: proposals under discussion include dispersing capacity, building some sites underground, using blast‑resistant materials and deploying drone and missile defenses. Amazon says it remains committed to customers in the region while grappling with long-term recovery and protection measures.
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