Amazon Web Services announced it cannot restore access to cloud resources and data hosted exclusively in multiple Bahrain sites and one availability zone in the United Arab Emirates after drone strikes more than six months ago damaged facilities beyond their design tolerances. Two UAE data centers were directly hit and a Bahrain site suffered nearby strike damage in March; AWS had previously advised customers to move workloads to other regions and warned of continued operational unpredictability in the Middle East. The company said it is still attempting to recover two other affected UAE zones, will provide further updates on UAE restorations in the coming months, and expects to report more on Bahrain in early 2027.
The incidents have prompted urgent reassessments of data center security and siting across the Gulf as demand for compute capacity tied to artificial intelligence surges. Major projects that planned集中capacity, such as a large UAE campus backed by OpenAI, Nvidia, Oracle and Cisco, are being reconsidered for dispersed layouts and hardened designs, including underground builds, blast-resistant concrete and active drone/missile defenses. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed responsibility, citing US military links, highlighting geopolitical risk to critical infrastructure and pushing operators and host countries toward tougher physical and strategic protections.
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